[safeimp]

The additional weight comes from the front display.

The reports regarding fatigue are consistently related to users wearing only the band, when they add the additional strap that goes directly over the head it's fine. Typical Apple leading with form over function. It ships with the additional strap at least so that should alleviate it for most people. Quest 3 has a similar additional band which helps as well.

[dagmx]

I don’t know why people think an oled display is heavy. There’s a ton of other heavier components to the point where that front display is likely insignificant.

Things like active cooling, multiple camera arrays, motorized IPD adjustment.

I bet when iFixIt does a tear down, the front display will be shown to be negligible.