We love our skinny tree! The lights are nice and a good density. The changing color patterns and moods are really awesome. You can take the look of your tree from funky ugly Christmas sweater party vibes to elegant Christmas Eve with a touch of a button. My nieces loved providing custom lighting for everyone as we round robin opened presents. Like with any artificial tree, especially out of the box, you need to do some fluffing and separating of branches. This tree held onto the needles very well through this process. Honestly if you didn’t do much fluffing it still looks decent as a sparse decorator tree. I did have to re-think my garland (wide ribbon looked out of place on this tree- the shape is tall and conical, not bell shaped) but even my heaviest ornaments didn’t bend or misshape the branches. One Christmas down and hopefully decades more out of this great little pre-lit tree.