I've honestly never been fond of purses until I got my license, now it comes in handy and it's quite useful and I don't mind it. I'll never be one of those people to get a massive purse, I prefer smaller ones to be honest.
I'd say I'm in-between, I like backpacks and purses, they both are useful but as my mom said, if you were to be pulled over and were digging in your backpack for a license, it would look bad and they could assume you were to be digging around for something other then your license.