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In essence, for me, it's for small things far away. I have three types of Latin associated with my shoulders, neck and spine, so carrying heavy lumps suspended from them is unpleasant after a long period of time. This continues for three to four days after the event.

I will take this particular lens with me, when I'm driving to a location with a short walk or a hide nearby. In good light, handheld is perfectly plausible, I have used it with good effect off a gimble, but that was about two yards from the car.

The only indoor application I can imagine it being useful for is sports.

I do know of others who use it as a macro for moving objects, insects for example with great success.

For travel, I use apsc cameras, the 70 - 200 for the larger subjects, mammals, large birds etc. For anything smaller, I'd take the 100 - 400. Both can be used with teleconvertors if necessary.

I have taken some fairly major trips pre covid where I would have taken the beast, antarctic circle, safaris, trekking to see wild gorillas in Uganda and Galapagos. These would justify the pain and you spend a good deal of time in vehicles, be they ribs, ships or 4 X 4s. I will soon be in Indonesia looking to spot wild Urang Utans and it will definitely be coming with me for that. I may just have to pack the one pair of boxers and saw a few ounces of handle off the end of my toothbrush.

If you're into wildlife or fast moving sports, you probably should get one.