There’s good strollers out there. I had a pretty mainstream one, a Peg Perego SI, which is between 70’s umbrella sling and SUV leaning heavily to 70’s umbrella sling.
Basically a sling with a bit more comfort & support, a small stach area beneath and a hood that provided full coverage when needed, all gone when not.
It lasted 5 years, through 2 kids and was still in fine shape such that it made another family happy after us.
I lean towards 70’s sling, I want tiny and manuverable and do not want to offend when traveling through stores. This was all that but could go for long, long 3-4 hour walks in the city without being a pain to me or child. The straight sling strollers are often quickly uncomfortable for a child unless fully reclined, something many didn’t so. The crappy wheels found on many of the old sling strollers meant hardship on long walks even with sidewalks.
It collapsed into a decent shap for stowage but not fun to carry. A bike lock fixed that. I wouldn’t want to carry any stroller around without the child in it, so abandoning it locked to something was the thing to do for me if out n about & in a park or in a place where I didn’t need it.
Initially I was thinking it too big, but it grew on me. And it has a coffee cup holder on the other side. Foolish to take a picture of it without showing that, whoever took this one shoulda known better.
It needed one repair in 5 years, to a cable used when collapsing it, fixed it meself. Only drawback was that child one didn’t want to give it up and be walking when child 2 was in it. This problem was resolved by carrying child one on my shoulders while pushing the stroller with child 2. That went on til child one was 5, garnering me much sympathy from passerbys.
