For me, the most important property of a bike is how well it stores. Even if I ride an average of an hour a day, >95% of the time, stored is how the bike is being used (p-hacking that is left an exercise for the reader).

So now I have a Brompton. It lives between rides in an ordinary closet (or cupboard as a Brit might say). Taking it from the closet to the outside and unfolding it is the second easiest ride prep method I know of —- the easiest is outside unlocked (price of outside and unlocked are obvious).

Hauling it requires no now-you-have-two-awkward-pieces-of-metal car rack or disassembly, so the decision to take it somewhere to ride is only do I want to ride it.

And it is a piece of masterful engineering that does everything a bike needs to do reasonably well and doesn’t encourage the purchase of Lycra or obsession over specifications. YMMV.