I’ve spent some time trying to figure out what the attraction of the SW is if you’re not just cave diving. Must be the looks cool thing and all the social media attention it gets. I dive with a number of folks regularly who are on the Sidekick and know others with the SW. These were all first CCRs. Everyone had already been diving SM for a number of years.
The SW is a massive PITA to get into if you’re wearing thick undies, from the struggles I’ve witnessed. Fish flopping on land type struggles. Seems much fiddlier as a whole
than regular OC SM, just from watching SW divers.
I can’t comment on performance. I’ve spent a lot of time talking to folks ahead of buying my own unit (next year probably, Spirit), and the SW just seems to be a massive pain for folks who boat dive. I can’t imagine trying to don it on a rocking boat.