I've wanted a smokey mountain smoker for years now but they're so darned expensive!!
I've gone back and forth. I need a smoker of some kind, and I know the WSM is about as good as it gets if you're talking about spending a couple/three hundred bucks.
But, I've got a friend who swears by his (similarly-priced) electric smoker - which is electric, but that means he can cold-smoke his own bacon for 12 hours or whatever it needs with essentially no work. Remote-controlled, even! I also love making beer and drinking smoked beers, and being able to cold-smoke (~120°=ish) is ideally for smoking barley malt.