I must say the green on the cube does look epic! Yes the bike is on the heavy side but coming from a 2024 cube AMS lightweight emtb the new model is miles ahead in every way!
To be honest you don’t notice the weight when riding
What bike did you go for in the end?
I was in your exact predicament a few weeks back and went for the green cube!
It seems great although is somewhat early days.
My reason for not getting the amflow was the untried and untested, following on the amflow forum there seems to be various teething...