Take what everyone says with a grain of salt. Especially people who are violently, abusively upset about the "defaults to AC on the mV and current ranges".
Anyone who has such an extremist, visceral reaction to such a minor thing should not be swaying your opinion.
Just buy the 87V if you feel its specs work for you. It's an excellent meter, along with many other DMMs.
I grew up with Fluke being best meters you could buy, both handheld and benchtop. They were answer to the question "What is the best meter?".
They are not anymore. They are very good quality, and too expensive for capabilities.
In last 10 years other manufacturers are going forward and Fluke discontinued best meters they had and just kept making those that have great profit margins.
Fluke is not in the business of making best meters, it's in the business of making money from Fluke impeccable reputation.
Danaher Corporation is milking the brand, that's all.
If by chance 87V fulfills all your needs (feature wise), and you're willing to pay (if you can't find a deal and have to pay retail), you will get excellent basic meter with good precision and long term stability, electrically and mechanically robust, that will last for many years..
OTOH, BM869S is pretty much more comparable to F289 without graphing capability (unfortunately even the size is comparable to F289). For 250€ in EU.
It is also very robust (electrically even all the more so), and very stable. And very good screens on Brymen. Stupid backlight though, not that I care.
To me it's a 75% of F289 capabilities for 250€ in EU.
That is waay better deal than 450€ for F87V
Brymen also has BM839 that is more directly comparable to F87V and is 150€.
That's 3 for 1. I'm going to give one to my son, one to his friend that is going to school with him, and with the one I keep I will measure all the same as I would with F87V.
That's all.. Those are simple facts and aren't meant to hurt somebody's feelings..