30k - plus taxes?   Uhm, no way on this earth would I be doing that.  

Interesting - all the original comments was it would not fit.

Yamaha had eps and it didn't really go any where. I didn't realize there was no patient on it. My guess it, it makes sled more complicated to build and they don't want to do some with eps and others without. I looked into what it would take to install it on a current 900. Very hard to do because steering post has to be cut to fit in power steering rack. Can be done if you throw enough dollars at it. 

998 turbo should fit in the Catalyst.  There is a video of a guy on FB that put one into the cat snowcross chassis and seems to run pretty good.

Very surprised no EPS.   Face the facts, it's generally us older guys buying new, 4 strokes are becoming more popular, put those two together and you get the "Steering is too heavy"  statements.   You want less sales, you want older people out of the sport?    Why do people need to spend money on gadgets to make steering easier?   Cat has the right idea, I hope they are very successful with the EPS.   Guessing that is what it will take to wake up the  other manufacturer's