The case that people love to hate. Not sure why that is, perhaps they bought it themselves with wrong expectations, or they simply belief that the judgement of gamer's jesus is to be seen as gospel, even when it's only based on one criteria. For me, the q500l is ideal, because i was specifically searching for the smallest case that could accommodate this cooling setup, of which most parts i already had laying around, not being used in the previous built but a few years ago.

I know there are much smaller alternatives which can also work with 2x240 rads, but they always come with annoying compromises like having to use slim fans, having the PSU in a weird place over the cpu and/or not being able to have one of the 240rads be 6cm thicc with push/pull fans.

What is often overlooked about this case is, that while it's still far from SFF case territory, with only 32 liters it is an ATX case that is smaller than most micro-atx cases and even some mini-itx with a standard layout. on top of that its versatility and moddability is kind of unmatched and hasnt been seen on the market ever since Caselabs went bankrupt.

yes, the whole design concept makes it not the easiest case to work in and ventilation is not comparable to high-airflow cases, but these issues can be dealt with. i wouldnt aircool a threadripper+titan combo in it, but if you're either watercooling(high pressure, slow fans) or using parts with smaller wattage (like most mainstream ryzen), the ventilation is good enough. The max temp i witnessed so far after some minutes of stresstest was 58degree C for both cpu and gpu using a ryzen 3700x and gtx 1080. But i have to add that it's not completely finished, i'm still waiting on some parts and need to fix minor issues. e.g. i expect the cooling performance to increase further when the vpp655 pump get replaced by an actual D5, currently the flowrate is abysmally slow.