I put one in my pocket yesterday, and held it in my hand - it is fairly big in comparison to my eVic. Makes me feel more manly though - so I too do not understand people selling them especially men.
its all the awesomeness it houses in that casing.
That my friend is CUD <-- It is a real problem, the need to upgrade outweighs everything else, even budgetary constraints everything fails against the power of CUD. I've been suffering from CUD for about 10 years now, it started with the need to compulsively upgrade my PC.
I just watch that post count, increase by the day!
I think the sell factor is also hype based - maybe people got them, because everyone was getting them and when they got it realized that it wasnt for them.
If you are looking for a simple menu, great battery life, awesome headroom and TC modes for everything (SS.NI.TI) as well as 3 adjustable TCR modes then the rx200 delivers them for, a decent price. Sure, batteries are excluded - but, they are a variable cost in any mod without a built in cell.