It means "Who Gives a F***"...
This will probably be my first conical fermenter.
https://spikebrewing.com/collections/fermenters/products/cf10With a listed price of $650, it's actually reasonable IMO. Depending on other factors, I'll probably pick up the additional hardware to use a glycol chiller at that same time (or close to it) and not really need to use the fermentation chamber.
We'll be sampling the first batch fermented under pressure on Sunday ( a week after it went to serving/carbonating kegs). I expect it to be either fully carbonated, or damned close to it, by then.
Before I built the fermentation chamber, I never had an area that was 100% light free 24x7. So using something with solid walls, with zero light penetration, made perfect sense. Not to mention something could slam into it and it wouldn't care. I also age in the converted kegs. I recently pulled samples of several batches of mead, and a barley wine, I started 6-8 years ago. No issues at all with them. I had purged the head space with CO2 before they went down for their slumber, and they've done very well.
I don't think I'd trust any plastic vessel to do the same thing, for the same amount of time, without significant issues.
Yeah, I'm not neurotic enough to sit there and stare at the beer (or anything else) fermenting like a voyeur. :O At most, I'll pull up the temperature on the Inkbird sensor that's in the thermowell to see what it's doing. I know (from multiple batches) that once it goes back to ambient temperature, the beer is done fermenting. Then let it sit for a while (a week or more) so the yeast can flocculate out, and it's good to go to keg.