I’ve used those Hitachi extensively ( for over a year I was on a team designing crew compartments for aerospace and we would often build full scale wooden models for testing ).
We had a great shop, probably 5-10 different brands of cordless screwdrivers, but were always fighting over the Hitachi… it just worked really well. Batteries seemed to last longer, the balance was great, it was shorter (you almost can’t tell in the photo), and because of that it could fit into really small spots.
It was a couple RISD guys and myself, and honestly, there was never any issue about the way it looked… nothing objectionable and the green rubber gave it good grip when you grabbed it. Because of that experience, I ended up buying one myself