Nice review, echo's a lot of my own thoughts!
I picked mine up from Casio a few weeks ago as well using the code. It's my first one and tbh, it does exactly what i want it to: good for swimming, messing around outside and it probably become my holiday watch - so very happy with it.
I have found I just treat it as an analogue only watch and forfeit the digital readout, it;s utterly useless!