The iron is fine. It's quite light, but it has great steam, so gets though my man size jeans without any problems. But that darn power cable is really short. Unless you have an extension cable you can place underneath the ironing board, this is not the iron for you.
As for the 'not being able to see the water level' comments, I don't know what they mean! All you need to do it to hold the iron about 3 inches away from a 50 watt halogen spot light and you can easily see how much water is in the tank!!!!
Because of the short power cable and the rather tricky 'water level' viewing technique, it loses a star.