I’ve wanted to read the NIV, but I’ve never taken the time to get more than a few chapters through Genesis.
If you ever attend BSF (Bible Study Fellowship), they primarily use NIV in their study materials. They say you technically can use whatever translation you want, but there are study questions that directly ask your response to a particular given wording.
That’s why I got a new NIV thinline Bible for my wife a few years ago, when she generally prefers NLT. NLT is easier to just straight up read like a book, but she was attending BSF at the time.