>>1225459People buy hybrids because they want 'comfy' bikes, but really comfy bikes are bikes with expensive chromo steel frames & forks which flex passively, and wide supple tires.
Hybrids are generally cheap, overly stiff, heavy, aluminium frames, which don't flex, ride badly, and are paired either with garbage suspension forks (the most important thing to avoid), or alternately cheap gaspipe steel forks. Their geo is generally designed to put you in as upright a position as possible, which isn't comfortable either.
Then they're built up with very low quality parts, including stiff heavy tires.
If you live in a city in America, then you can buy an older rigid mtb, or steel roadie, for less money than a shit tier hybrid would cost you, and have a far superior bike. You might have to service a few things, so maybe it's a bad idea if you need handholding, but you can't even assume a 'new' cheap hybrid is in good condition, and that too is also likely to need servicing straight away.
Once you pay enough to get a hybrid with a nice frame, a carbon fork and decent parts on it, you could afford a new road bike or a new meme bike and you're likely to be riding for long enough distances to really benefit from having drop bars.
