Straight is not really possible right now. The sprinkler is, after all, positioned perpendicular to the PE pipe. The PE pipe is also only 20-50 cm under the ground. So bending it won't work either. I have the BluLock hoses for the last meter to the sprinkler. With those, you could of course make the bend a bit smoother - true. I hadn't thought of that. But it doesn't really make a huge difference now. Maybe even none at all in terms of pressure loss. I had noted somewhere. I believe about 0.01 bar pressure loss occurs with a 90-degree bend. If I don't use a 90-degree elbow fitting but make the bend gradual with BluLock, I don't have that sharp 90-degree bend but instead more (centimeter) meters of the thin 1/2" hose. That also generates pressure loss. Since the pressure loss in the end only concerns that last sprinkler, those 0.01 bar should easily be available as a buffer in the system. No one designs their system with such a tight margin.