I know: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. <g> And I surely prefer the habit to the cardinal 'get-up.'
But I think the practice is divisive, and I know that at least some priests in Boston experience Sean's choice that way.  He doesn't live with the Capuchins, though I understand from friends in Boston that the Capuchins have a house not far from where he does live.
But this is, I suppose, a matter of taste, a matter of opinion -- and not one I'd go to the mat for.