It sits very stably on top of a tripod, and carries very well. If you take a look at the NEED charts, you will see that its optical performance looks pretty good too. The situation is aggravated by the fact that the eyepiece does not have a fold down eyecup. The hard rubber cup holds your eye back from the full view. If you wear eyeglasses, the image seems to float somewhere down the barrel of the scope.
Eyepieces are very often the major limiting factor in the view their scopes are able to provide.
Several promising scopes, the 70mm and ED Spacemaster come to mind, have been doomed by less than adequate eyepieces. The Premiere probably deserves better eyepieces.