I dont have any whoops .. so wanna know what made you buy them?

2018-2019 .. tons of 2.5" toothpicks. Small. Cheap. Fly great. Even popular Sailfly X for $90

2 years later.. not much changed.
Moblite7. 20g. Its bit frail, but can get 10min flight time. A whoop is a whoop. Obviously meant for indoors.

Now I see tons of pretty heavy 80-100mm whoops
LDARC ET85D 1105
Geelang Anger85X 1202 59g
HGLRC motorwhoop 1303.5 60g+
Homfpv Scorpion 1203 61g

I get it.. bad weather.. you fly trashcan or Moblite indoors. But although small, these "whoops" are pretty heavy and can do damage. So.. why buy them?

i see the same, some wrong use xD

another example for me is the trend of 3inch cinewhoops with fullsize gopro on it or 4inch longrange quads which are used for freestyle...

i fly a 16g 1s whoop 22g uaw , doesnt depend on in or outdoors, just depends on flightspot - for very tight spaces. the reason for ducts on the inductrix backthan was increased thrust as the bsushed motors was just not powerfull enough, todays reason on brushless motors seems just crash/recovery, protection.
thight spaces does give less ability to make mistakes compared to a 5inch racetrack with flags and gates, intense flights would give more bended motorshafts, huge amount of destroyed rotors... no protection gives very low flighttime in the end. for my opinion it only matches on very low weight whoops as they can receive alot impacts until the whoopframes break.

somewhere technical focus get lost by "hype"

Agree its hype more than technical requirements.

Maybe Im just really old fart idealist.. I only see clear categories:
brushed whoop
whoop
toothpick
TP3
3"cine
...

any weird mish mash blend often doesnt make sense