In a way I'm thankful that I discovered mechs before we had regulated mods that could vape at higher than 20 watts. I learned all I needed to know to get a good vape and enjoyed the maintenance routine as a labor of love. That part gets even more enjoyable with high end hardware.
Had a brief spinoff to regulated mods before I realized I wasn't really using them at any higher wattages than my mech builds. I've pretty much stayed between 10 and 40 watts since I started vaping. In the ranges I vape at mechs just make more sense to me as I get good battery life on a much simpler, compact, more sturdy and beautiful device that will never really wear out. All personal preference to me but I feel mechs (especially single battery) are better suited to lower power vaping.
Rather than dive into the new rabbit hole of pods I just use a small battery mech with a mtl or rlh tank. Those devices just seem incredibly shoddy and wasteful and a general pain in the .... Plus the market moves so fast there's a new pod system to try every other day it seems. More money wasted on something that doesn't seem to be much of an improvement over the old ego/clearo systems and you are dependent on the manufacturer for everything, including QA. Those systems are why I got into mechs and rebuildables in the first place. Otherwise I'd have probably gone back to smoking.
