Maybe some editing of your articles before publishing wouldn't be a bad idea. I still own it and it still works now after being abused by me for many years during my teenage, and never had any problems using it. I would guess that most Nikkormat and Nikomat FT cameras are sought after by collectors and never used. As a practical picture taker I find the FTN, FT2 and FT3 models much easier to use. This was longer than any other Nikkormat/Nikomat model. An FT2 was my first SLR camera, bought secondhand 30 years ago. The original FT was not made for very long. The Olympus OM1 (a masterpiece) for example has a control arrangement similar to the first Nikko(r)mats. I find it childish to define the Nikkormat: "Everything from loading the film, to changing the shutter speed, to mounting a lens is needlessly complicated", for the simple reason that in the 70s a standard for the position of controls in the reflex cameras did not exist yet and each manufacturer designed his own way. I had sent a comment that the moderator probably didn't like, so I rephrase. I state that I am not a Nikon fanboy and that I professionally shoot with Canon, Nikon and Hasselblad DSLR. That certainly was better than an F becoming obsolescent every time a better meter came out. Now the camera and the prism had to be linked and thus the pre auto-indexing pin/connector. It was introduced with no meter, but Nikon knew that meters were coming and put the meter into an interchangeable prism. The awkward lens indexing comes from the first 1959 Nikon F. The level of complexity in the FT-2 is negligible.
In a modern DSLR any one button or dial may change dozens of things depending on what ever else is enabled. Still what I like about film cameras was that when you turned THAT dial, this happened. I have no dewy eyed appreciation left for film photography one hour too many in a darkroom put the nail in that coffin. I owned one - as well as the AI FT-3 - and I don't remember any resistance to turning the shutter speed ring nor pulling the tab out to adjust the ASA - as it was then. As far as I know: All Nikkormat (and other Nikon bodies) serial numbers run consecutively in a given series. I think that the author has gotten his hands on a bad FT-2.