I agree that it'd be nice to see more cases ditch optical bays, or at least limit themselves to slimline drives. There's no reason for cases to be as deep as they are these days except that they're sticking stubbornly to optical drives next to the motherboard and a ton of drive space that no-one really uses. If you're making a budget case then chances are they customer doesn't need room for 6 3.5" drives, plus 2.5" drives are now very affordable and give you all you really need anyway if you're looking for a gaming machine.
IMO this is still a pretty boring case; there's no reason that budget cases should be awkward or have little effort put into them, after all it's only design and for the internals that's just a case of shuffling things around which isn't exactly hard; harder to do just right maybe, but so many companies aren't even trying, and we just end up with bulky tower after bulky tower, which is silly when you can fit full-sized graphics and CPU coolers into a smaller chassis.