Perfection means without any flaws. This shoe definitely has flaws. They are very minor flaws but they affect me and have affected others. Nightwing mentioned the tongue in his review. If you owned the Vs and VIs, you would know that Nike is using a thinner, cheaper lace in the 8s. Maybe it's for weight reduction, but it's probably for cost purposes.
I wear mine strictly for basketball. If I wore them casually, the laces and tongue would be irrelevant.
For the record, these are one of my favorite shoes of all time. I love the Kobe line. This is the best, if not one of the best, shoes in the Kobe line. But I'm not going around calling it the greatest thing since sliced bread. It has it's flaws and I just pointed them out. No need to be condescending.
