My opinion as a casual bicyclist: * I bought a bike during the existence of these things and never knew they existed (and I'm casual enough that my bike has a

My opinion as a casual bicyclist: * I bought a bike during the existence of these things and never knew they existed (and I'm casual enough that my bike has a cupholder). * I'm certainly interested in less maintenance but have no interest in losing handbrakes, and if I did, would probably prefer fixie over coaster-esque. * Seat storage seems neat, but bike seats are very finicky person to person in terms of circulation, numb feet/toes, etc. * In my view single shifter is great and newer style single sprocket stacks that do 5 to 15 speeds off one shifter are where it's at. * I suspect if there were good (in same price bracket) disk brake options on very upright riding stance bikes people who tried would like. * A better default derailleur + shifter is probably an improvement casual bikers don't realize they'd love, but have no basis for ever getting. * Casual bikers need at least one very low gear because we find hills miserable. * Storage options can really make a bike for a casual rider, but they're less obvious to figure out than ideal. * It confuses me that these would win design awards.