True, it may be subjective in terms of appearance. It does cripple functionality though and that's all I was saying. Based on size of the width.
I've got an old standard mid tower case quite a bit smaller than my rather large enthoo pro, an old antec slk2650. No frills, no windows, 92mm intake, 120mm exhaust with the old p4 side intake on it and it's big enough to comfortably fit the 212 evo. Even with a side panel fan mounted directly over it. That case is 8.3" wide, 3.5" shorter top to bottom and just over 2" shorter front to back. Overall a smaller case but roomy enough inside to be functional.
The fractal r4 is pretty wide, nearly as wide as an enthoo pro and supports coolers up to 170mm. There's a happy medium I think, being so close yet just short enough with cpu cooler heights limited to 155mm cancels out at least half or better of popular air coolers.
Many people who want to stay on a budget face this problem, if they want a cheap decent air cooler many go with the 212 evo. It's taller than 155mm. Quite a few budget cases aren't wide enough to fit the 212 evo which creates an issue. Regardless of the price this case sports when it's released it will suffer the same fate, being just a tad too narrow. These days I prefer the cyrorig h7 which is another great budget cooler and short enough it would work in a case like this but there are a number of times it's unavailable or sold out.
Maybe they should have classified this one as a 'water cooling case' much like they did the other previous reviewed case designated as a '4k vr ready' case. Hopefully in the future they'll make an alternative sort of like phanteks did when they shortened their enthoo pro, retained many of the same features and released it as the enthoo pro M. Similar in design to this case but a tad wider for air cooling support, 140mm fans and some of the wider water coolers or radiators like the 280's. I like the overall look of it, it's somewhat unique.
Looking at user comments for coolers, between just amazon and newegg there have been over 10,000 reviews for the 212 evo alone. Granted it's over a span of many years but that's still a relatively large crowd to shut out. Going narrow makes sense for a sff or htpc case but this case is way too large for that purpose (by traditional standards anyway). They've already surpassed htpc design, may as well make it more widely compatible. They'd probably sell more of them.
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