Touch screen seems like a good idea, but when you're all sweaty or freezing it isn't. I like to have the buttons and its hardly more expensive than the 130 for what you get. Try not having turn-by-turn in unfamiliar territory and you'll find out! This item is for both beginners and experts!
It definitely took me a few minutes to get used to the awesome features. But now I love how it connects with the Garmin varia rear radar detecting light and shows you are in upcoming traffic and you can program what side they are on. As well as how many cars there are.
Quite affordable and works great with the Varia Radar. The colored display looks good and keeps surprising me with its features (e.g. grade measurement, seeing texts). Sometimes I forget what button does what but it's not too much of an issue. Battery life is pretty impressive.
Works as advertised. Lots of cool features that are actually useful for training. And the map is great! Easy to make a route in Garmin Connect and load it up to the Garmin. It tells you turn by turn on a easy to see map. It also integrates well with Training Peaks (workouts from TP load automatically to the Garmin). Apparently works well with TrailForks for mountain biking but have not tried that yet. If MTB trails are shown in Garmin Connect map then you can create a MTB route that you can then load to the Garmin as well. All and all great product.
I've loved using this on MTB, road and Gravel rides. I regularly use it with ride with GPS and find that the navigation works well, but isn't perfect. The device itself always runs smoothly and knows where I am, but sometimes the "navigate to beginning of course" directions don't make any sense. Aside from that once I'm on course and riding the directions are seamless.