You're correct. I don't think I had ever seen a pump action gun without a tubular magazine. Are there many others that you are aware of?
Being familiar with the AR design, as soon as I saw the picture of the DPMS version it was clear just how easy to design it would be.
I'm not sure I need one. I have a "pistol-grip-deficient" version that works well enough. I'm surpised at the $1700 price shown on the DPMS web site. That's pretty pricey. Almost what I paid for my Armalite AR-10.
Nor do I.
I can think of at least two non-pump guns with tubular magazines, but no pump guns with non-tubular magazines.