Agreed. Guys at Gibson need to know this users' opinion. However, I still can't figure out how their communication with customers works (does it?).
http://www.gibson.com/Gibson/Talk-2-Us.aspx to contact them, but why bother? What would it accomplish? You chose to buy the bass. The pickup isn't defective, you just decided you don't like it as well as you thought you would. Gibson wouldn't care, and they especially wouldn't care when it's a discontinued pickup in a discontinued limited run bass.
Ever hang around a Gibson-oriented guitar forum? Thousands of players decide to look for something they think will sound better, that's why there's such a big aftermarket for guitar pickups. Gibson doesn't care, they just hope you buy one of theirs if you do.
Gibson cares about selling instruments. If they don't sell to begin with, they care (e.g. the 2015 sales disaster and the changes for 2016). Once it sells, they only care about fixing defects under warranty,