The name originally comes from Finland and the Winter War, where they were used against soviet tanks.

I don’t think that’s a fair assessment. Comparing to a traditional loop, it has marginally better thermals, one less set of tubing (i.e. places for leaks to spring up), and a smaller form factor. Wether or not those are “worth the money” is completely subjective. As someone interested in custom SSF builds I thought it was interesting.

She was 31 years old at the time of writing, way too old to claim the ”edgy teenager on a message board”-defense.