Hard to judge how much you are getting, until you get too much and cough for 10 mins. lol
After choking and getting way higher than I wanted to be, I learned to take small draws and hold it in my mouth to let it cool off a bit before sucking it down.
But yeah, I would rather just smoke. Likely very handy for kids in school and such like though. When doing one hitters in class, by the open window, the hardest thing to hide was the flic of the bic noise. I reckon you could vape walking down the hall if you were careful and no one ratted you out.
Most times though we just walked a little way down the street and smoked up before 1st class and a lunch. Break time wasn't long enough but for half a Marlboro red and smoking pot was mostly a social activity back then.
The weed store here is like a mall. I don't know what 90% of it is. "dab", "wax", "vape", "live resin"....
I went there yesterday and some kid giving out free samples asked me "how do you consume cannabis?". I didn't know what he was talking about. I said "Huh?" so he asked again and I said "I smoke weed out of a pipe in the traditional way". Personally, I preferred it when it was still illegal. It kept out the riff-raff.