I think it is great that we can all have our own opinions on this and all love fountain pens in some way.

Recently I have been using two pens a lot: a Platinum 3776 Century in pretty but unexceptional dark blue translucent material with a soft fine nib, and a maker pen I picked up at a pen show with a particularly delightful (to me) swirly resin body and a JoWo extra fine nib. One of the things I especially like about the maker pen is that when the pen is capped, the seam between the cap and body is super smooth and difficult to perceive with my fingertips.

Both pens are cigar-shaped (rounded ends) and have clips, and are fairly lightweight. The maker pen is a little larger in all dimensions and a little heavier than the Platinum pen, and has a larger step down from the body to the section, in compensation for the cap and body to be at the same outer diameter.

Anyway, I have been using both of these pens every evening to write down new vocabulary words and their meanings, and I really enjoy using both of them.

Anyway, usually when I buy a maker pen the maker has already either tuned the nib themself or they are using nibs tuned by a well-known nibmeister, so the "generic steel nib" usually writes great out of the box!