Major Matt Mason liked it.
I did first see it in the Time-Life “Man in Space”. It’s not that far from a “regular” spacesuit. The arms and legs about the same. But no helmet that moved with your head, and probably greater protection for the torso. Mason’s had arms that did not receive the person’s arms, so I guess that one you couod do things inside the suit. Heinlein goes into such matters a lot in “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”, having a first aid kit inside, but no way to access it.
But they have gone that way with diving suits. Not just fiction in “The Abyss” but for real.
