Corsair 5000D Airflow Tempered Glass Mid

For context I bought this to upgrade from the Fractal R5 because it couldn't properly fit a 3-fan GPU. I was looking forward to my first case upgrade in almost 10 years, but found myself disappointed by several features. First, the good parts - the case is very slick and modern-looking, the glass is pretty, all the mesh pieces and grates are good for air flow and easy to take off. And obviously the case is very roomy which makes working in it easy. The problem is that some parts of the design seem to have been sacrificed for looks: * The default position of the power supply directly faces the HDD rack. Like, literally, there is about 1 inch of clearance between the two - you're not gonna get ANY wires to your power supply, they don't bend like that. Thankfully you can move the HDD rack over, but why not just have it further away by default??? * Speaking of the HDD tray, thing looks like an afterthought - coming from the Fractal R5, which had a fully metal rack that could support at least 6 drives, the rack in this case only supports 2 HDDs sandwiched one on top of the other, and the individual HDD trays are made of cheap plastic which needs to be bent near the point of breaking in order to snap onto the HDD. The rack itself also isn't secured very well at all to the case frame... * Moving on to SSDs from HDDs, I thought the way that this case mounts the SSDs is really cool, despite being limited (as far as I could tell) to 2 mount points. However, in another example of style over function, the position of the SSDs makes it extremely inconvenient to connect the SATA cable coming from the power supply, because the SSD ends up lying flat while the SATA cable needs to bend * To drive home the point about disks - because the HDD rack and SSD mount points are in 2 completely different places, I had to switch to using 2 SATA cords from my PSU to reach them, instead of 1 cord to connect them all serially. It just feels like bad design for the sake of looking neat * While working on cable management, one of the rubber wire-organizing portals that sits between the front and back of the case got completely torn off. I've got a lot of cables, true, but this thing just came off like it wasn't even attached to the frame * No front panel. Now, zoomers might not care for this, but in the transition from the Fractal I had to give up my CD drive... I know, I know, even I can't remember the last time I used it, but like... come on. You have one of the biggest cases on the market and you can't fit just 1 CD drive? Do you really need 10+ spots for fans? * Front panel USB-C. This disappointed me because I realized while building that my motherboard doesn't support USB-C, which I can live with, but again going back to the Fractal the front panel on this Corsair is a downgrade - no separation of mic and headphone outputs, fewer total USB ports, why? Like, again, it's a huge case, why are we cheaping out? Bottom line, it's a good-looking case but maybe I'm just behind the times because on the inside this thing is so impractical. If you really like fans, like a LOT, then this case is probably for you because you can fit enough here to fan your whole room, but it's overkill. My biggest disappointment is that despite buying this case to future-proof myself and have enough extra space to be able to add more stuff to my computer in the future, instead I've already filled up nearly everything that this case has to offer. Except fans. Fans everywhere, I guess that's the future.