This falls under the "any comments" of your post. I recently purchased a Polar M450 and love it, but don't need directions while riding, and have no interest (I think) in downloading other's maps. It of course automatically records your route for viewing, saving, etc, after your ride.

Strava has free and pay, but so far I haven't seen a reason to pay. Ride with GPS has free and pay. I use the free side as an alternative to viewing my route. The Polar software provides me with all the details I could possibly want, but if I want others to see how little progress I'm making and how slow I am, I have the free sections of Strava and RWGPS. Polar software automatically syncs with Strava, so I'm increasingly leaning toward it. RWGPS requires me to upload the ride file (like I do with Cyclemeter, which I still love), so there are a few extra steps involved.