Fluke 87V successor from Fluke?

[Cnoob]

Were those revisions done to improve it or to cut costs?

possibly both. One 87 failed Joe Smith's test and others have suffered from RF interference which they improved /fixed.

If they found ways to cut costs, good on them because their warranty hasn't change.   

[windsmurf]

You can't buy a Brymen 869s here in the U.S. (although available through oversease resellers... and no warranty).
It looks like the Keysight 127xa and 128xa series are all discontinued now, at least it appears so in the U.S.
https://www.tequipment.net/AgilentU1272A.html?v=0

These meter families are still active.

This is TEquipment being terribly disingenuous with their practices. They mark something as "discontinued" from their website when, in fact, it is not carried by them anymore. That happens also with Siglent products.

Yeah, they could justify this as the product being "discontinued " only from their product line, but this term is not used in this sense by anyone else in the marketplace - everybody else uses "non-stock" or a variant of that.

I've been checking and it seems Keysight multimeters are no longer sold through dealers, but only from a handful of Distributors directly, in the U.S. 
They all have the same price, $394 for a Keysight U1272A, pricier than an 87V. 
I'd have to imagine they sell maybe one U1272A for every 100 87V sold. 

[rsjsouza]

I suspect you may be right regarding the sales volume, but their reseller selection is quite varied: 12 in their page for US.
https://www.keysight.com/main/partnerfinder.jspx?N=207358+187629&Ns=prodAvailability%7C0%7C%7CpartnerName%7C0&pageMode=RS&cc=US&lc=eng&nid=-32044.1242727