Personally, I think my FW is adorable and I desperately needed a more portable machine to take to quilting bees and the like. It sews a beautiful stitch, it's got that vintage charm, and it pieces marvelously well.
Also, for me, its portability means that I can toss it in and out of its case on a daily basis. My bedroom is extremely small and I sew on an armoire with a flip-out table base that doubles as its cabinet front. I'm constantly opening and closing the work surface, meaning that my machine is constantly going in and out of the cabinet. The FW couldn't be better for that!