Ah ... but that was my point! The Magma now has a "well" to "fill", albeit small, and wick from that but you are no longer simply dripping and that is what got me thinking about this. If they hadn't added that bit in it I would have kept on thinking about it that same way; you drip / vape some / drip more. But that addition and how it looked I thought "Shoot they could add a tank on it with a channel in there and they would be the same."
Then what if they added a squeeze bottle somewhere to fill the little well? That sounds like the REO doesn't it? or I think it does
Well the wicking works a little different in something like the magma with a large juice well, versus wicking through a tank system like the Kayfun or a clearo. You'd be surprised how much better something can wick when the juice is completely unobstructed from the coil. In a Kayfun or a clearo, the coil has to be isolated in some way from the juice container in order to avoid flooding. With the Kayfun thats the juice channels, with the Nautilus its the enclosed wick head, or even something like an old Vivi Nova or a ProTank it meant basically having wicks completely obstruct the holes where they exit the coil head and having a piece of silicon cover it. You had to rely on the juice wicking through the wick holes and traveling through a wick that was ever so slightly choked in order to prevent flooding. My experience had always been with these, the thick juices were stubborn about traveling through the wick. They'd wet the coil, but not fully saturate them.
In the Magma when you have the juice well completely filled, the juice level is VERY close to the coil and the wick is completely unobstructed. So the juice has a very short distance to travel, and it has no obstruction or choke point. Not to mention, cotton is FAR more absorbent than the standard silica wick in clearos. Also, you can always use a Magma just like any other dripper. Drip directly on the coil, vape, repeat.
Believe me, I thought the same thing before I got an RDA. You won't really see what I mean until you try one for yourself. An excellent RDA clone can be had today for amazing prices, so there's really no reason not to try one. Unless you don't know how to build a coil, which is also easy. Which is also ANOTHER benefit over a tank system. You can build the EXACT setup you want in an RDA. In a Kayfun, not so much.