While your typical market may be under 40 there may be a 47 year old guy who hasn't had bike in a few years who remembers how much fun he had on his last sportster.
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Also if you look at my other post about "typical sportsters" this one fits it to a 'T'. It's black, has a sissy bar with pillion pad, it has soft bag brackets, it's got the little Softail visor over the headlight and the bars were replaced with a more "touring" friendly bar for comfort. This bike is a textbook example of someone trying to build a budget softail.
That pretty much describes me. I had a sportster for years. I had a small child so long weekend excursions weren’t a thing. I mainly used it to commute and short trips to town etc or just to clear my head. I would have never just hopped on a bagged dresser to just run to town. At 50 mpg it did everything I wanted it to do and it was fun. I eventually converted it to 1212 and the mileage went down a little but the fun definitely increased.And, it came with a windshield and some mounting hardware, but an incomplete set.
I have to decide if I want to try to mount that plexiglass windshield to the front of this bike like one of the prior owners wanted to do (or maybe had done in years past.)
For a rider who is only 5 feet to maybe 5' 8" tall, this bike could be the perfect multipurpose cruiser motorcycle ---light and maneuverable to run around town with, but with a windshield and saddlebags it could be tolerable (though not ideal) for longer rides on bigger roads where you're going over 60 miles an hour for long stretches. Where you'll want some storage to pack rain gear, or a change of clothes, a tool kit...
....most of the Sportsters end up with a small windscreen, soft bags, crash bars, a sissy bar with pillion pad, and a custom seat. People will buy an 883 or even a 1200 and try their absolute best to make it into a budget Softail and it never works.