"It probably looked good on paper and as a CAD model. Poorly executed (you can't just scale things up), the proportions look very odd. What with those short handlebars?"
"American knife makers can make beautiful knives and then ruin it by screwing on a belt clip. My pet peeve, I know. But on this it really looks lousy."
"They adapted the idea from crowd barriers I think: https://www.prolyte.com/products/portable-stages/crowd-barriers. Same philosophy. Still, people are different from water. I can imagine this works with calm water. But stormy waves?"