BG Flips - Am I missing something?

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or are they basically glorified prefolds?

Prefolds.

The flip is just the name for the cover then there are the inserts. The organic inserts are like prefolds but the stay dry insert has a pad a bit like a pocket pad but two different textures, microfibre one side I'm not exactly sure what the other side is. I got some preloved (flips with staydry) from the MN sale board the other day and they seem pretty trim and absorbant too.
You can also get disposable pads which I haven't tried yet.

I was a bit unsure about them when I first heard about them but they seem quite popular if you look at the BG facebook page. I suppose they give people options.
I prefer pockets myself.
I'm testing out the weehuggers for Babykind as well, they are pretty similar but come in funky prints as well as plain.

the organic ones put me off as look like prefolds so i got the stay dry ones and i actually quite like them.