It's ok. I actually went to my Janome dealer first. I wouldn't dream of trading in my little machine. I love her and she is my go to machine for piecing and just about everything else. I just noticed she's too small to quilt anything larger than 60 inches on.
I still do most of my quilting by hand...but sometimes you need to get a project quilted faster...like for a sick friend or a child.
I think she's going to be great. Her throat size is the same size as the brother I was looking at. I'm fine that she doesn't have all the bells and whistles cause I didn't really want any in the first place. I'm really only an intermediate piecer now...someday when I can do some really difficult stuff, I'll get a larger machine with all the bells and whistles. I just don't need them now. The bonus is that she looks just like mom's featherweight. It's like I'll have a matching set, one bigger and one smaller!