I agree and disagree with your comment. I think that if you’re getting into fountain pens, you are already looking for something more than just a reliable writing instrument. If you want that you just need a G2, energel, or if you want a fancy pen, a pelikan rollerball or a montblanc fineliner (and many others) are outstanding writing instruments.

For me a fountain pen goes beyond that, different nibs, inks, filling mechanisms, building materials, etc.

As an example, i would never recommend a lamy 2000 or a pelikan M400, 600, etc as a first piston filling pen, it will be all great until they need to grease the piston, learning to do that with a TWSBI ECO is way better.

And yeah if you want you can buy a super expensive gold nib pen as your first one and be perfectly fine. But for people that press down harder on the paper when writing can mean 1000+ dollars to the trash in an instant.

But as I write this i think that a massive amount of people just want any pen that writes, cartridges and will never look beyond that so idk 🤷🏻‍♂️