If you polled 100 people and let them test 10 packs from 10 different manufacturers for extended lengths of time, you'd invariable get multiple users who prefer each of the 10 different packs. It always cracks me up to read people sitting in an internet forum who describe packs as being worthless, pieces of cr@p, etc...when it really just boiled down to it not being comfortable to them. Meanwhile, there are probably many thousands of users wearing that pack at the exact same time in the backcountry somewhere thinking, "man, I love this pack." I'm 100% sure that there are going to be people who love this pack, as well as people who are going to hate it.
Maybe so, but the only folks I've ever heard of complaining about a Kifaru waistbelt are the same sad souls who "left their a$$ at home". By that I mean they have a flat area where a fit man has well developed glutes. No pack ever designed, carrying any real weight, will ever be comfortable for a person with such a physique.
By the way, the remedy for that is deadlifts and squats.
