Originally Posted by jur
One of them is that if you used a saddle like that for an extended amount of time, the tissue that gets used for sitting gets all numbed up because they were not designed for sitting on. Sitting is supposed to be done with sit bones. This is also the reason that excessively padded saddles may feel comfy at first but using them for several hours is a PITA, pun intended.
I guess the point I was trying to make about the orthopedic seats got loss in the gel because these seats happen to have gel. These seats were designed with autonomy in mind, that is, they are wider and put more pressure on the bones and not on the soft tissue. Don't get caught up the gel. It really is not that important.