Wow....what a useless review. So you've never welded nor have you seen anyone weld in person (you admit that you see it on TV once) and you state that you're "definitely not what you’d call an expert"....I wouldn't call you ANYTHING...not even a amatuer or a welding want-to-be..
Why write a review when you have no experience, context NOR desire to weld, yet you feel you need to write about it? I know why...it's because you're a loser that likes typing about NOTHING and is so vane as to want to see your name appear beside a bunch of text that is no value to anyone.
Well done. More useless electronic chatter within the Internet.