I’ve never understood what the attraction is to reed diffusers either, Todd. They are downright unattractive and, as you aptly put it, reedy.
I’ve analyzed this, and your aversion to reeds might have origins in your fundamentalist Bible college background, where you were forced to do many papers on Moses. You alluded to such in your last posting. My aversion to them is still a mystery, as I went to SMU, where there was nary an Old Testament within 100 feet of campus.