The harsh hot air is not a nice feeling imho. I don't like vaporizers that can't cool the vapor down a bit before inhalation, with lightbulbs/methpipes its the worst in that regard. Methpipes are better than lightbulbs, which you should never use as vaporizers as they can shatter easily. If you can afford it, get a vaporgenie. Its like the Cadillac of vaporizer pipes that use a lighter as its heat source. And you don't heat the glass, but a ceramic porous disk that heats the air passing through it, so it heats up much quicker and is alot harder to overheat/burn vaporizables with since the glass doesn't heat up and stay hot. IE it heats the air via convection which vaporizes said volatiles when passed over, rather than the much inferior and less effective method of heating glass that comes in contact with the vaporizables via conduction.
In short, conduction (heating glass to heat whatever it is your vaporizing, like meth pipes and ghetto lightbulb methpipes) kinda sucks to vaporize things (hash oil glass/ti rod domes are an exception though). Convection is where its at, and the vaporgenie kicks ass at doing that.