[Glyptodon]

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.

[VectorLock]

I also bought a bike during this period and had never heard of the Coasting thing and this is exactly the things I was looking for in a bike.

Perhaps this was largely a failure of marketing.