I got my new Boba yesterday afternoon, and it is so stiff! I think I'll like it pretty well once it's broken in, but oh my! I put it on, and it felt a little foreign. I have a well-loved but still excellent condition Angelpak, which was my first non-Bjorn-type carrier, and I don't remember it being this stiff. It might have been Ignorance-Is-Bliss sort of thing though since it was my first carrier.