Like "tacticool" hunting gear: flash over function. Of course, if you're watching this, ("see the host"), the part of the function of the microphone is to look

Like "tacticool" hunting gear: flash over function. Of course, if you're watching this, ("see the host"), the part of the function of the microphone is to look good. Add to the scene instead of detract. You may feel the big fancy showy things do not add value, but that's getting into questions of taste that are subjective, innit. There was a fashion for some particular old microphones, a while back; where they'd been produced but found little success but were valued years after for the particular properties they might've had. Often these were from the early days and were big chonky things and used designs that were impractical. The visual impression of that gear hit us in our childhoods and gave us the image of the fancy suspension rig and technical looking complexity. With modern processing, it should be able to match the performance (good or bad) of any microphone with quite cheap sensors plus some software. The Shure SM58 shall finally inherit the whole of the Earth.