You get a musky, a pike, or a decent largemouth on one of those and you will be wishing for more backbone. We get the big eaters joining the panfish party every once in a while. They will take the tiny offerings directly, too.
This rod has a very similar ultraslow, ultrasoft action as the 22" lightest version of the Frabill Panfish Popper which comes with a spring bobber, although that is one of those terrible unadjustable coil spring jobbies. I fished one of those with the spring bobber removed for a couple of seasons and liked the very soft tip on it a whole lot. Then I broke it. The HT 24" Icelander noodle has very nearly that soft of a tip, but it has some backbone behind it farther down the blank. I use a couple of them rebuilt with cork handles and better guides. They work very well. You can also get that soft of a blank from Jann's netcraft and build your own and it will be very close to that soft and that slow, too. They also have everything else you would need including tips with the right size tube, I used single legged fly fishing guides to keep the weight down. That is still too slow for us; so I reenforce the butt with a proper sized piece of broken hollow ultralight out to about the first guide, epoxied in place. My fishing partner held a full sized musky on that for very close to 10 minutes a couple of winters back; so it will take it, when necessary.
I use the soft tipped rods both the purely ice ones and some longer all year around. The summer bite, especially for crappies, can be very nearly as soft around here, a whole lot of times. For tight in jigging the shorter, soft-tipped sticks do very well on open water, too.
Personally I do not like how flexible the corkalon handle is either, but that is just me.
The lakes I normally fish both summer and winter are heavily stocked with muskies and to me they are a plague. But native pike and largemouths show up almost as frequently and walleyes are relatively common around here in crappie fishing, especially late in the day.