I got the flirc usb dongle for remotes at the same time, since I thought I'd want it (my pi is a media center) and there was a discount at the time if you bought both it and the case.. I've been far less impressed. It's a great idea in theory, but in my experience there was enough flakiness/delay with each button press, especially with Kodi for some reason, that it was basically unusable. Also, their utility for programming the dongle did not run well on the pi itself (it stores configuration on-device so you don't need to program it from the device you'll be using it on), and the install process involved setting up a repo that is served over http and does not have an associated gpg key, which gave me a bad feeling (although overall it felt more like a startup flying by the rest of its pants than anything malicious). I am somewhat hopeful that with more time/polish these issues will be fixed in software, but can't currently recommend it.
Note that it's clearly an injection-molded aluminum top-half and the bottom-half is plastic, just used to keep the dust out.
I would describe it as simple and elegant; fit for purpose.
Otherwise I'm quite happy to have a full passive cooling config, as currently my RPi home server must live in the kitchen/dinning room area due to space constraints.
What a pity that there's plastic on the bottom.