When my wife and I got married, she was used to bbq'ing on her families gas bbq. My family used charcoal briqs, she could never get them started so I bought an electric starter, easy peasy, just put in bbq, pile the briqs on, plug in a wait for 10 minutes or so until they were lit. I came home the next night, she met me and said she would put the steaks on, bbq was ready... then got a funny look and ran... I ran to see what was going on, she had put the starter in, piled briqs on, closed lid and forgot about it. LOL, briqs were going great, the cord to the electric starter had a melted mess on end of it.. She cooked the steaks, then after cleaning up, went to box store and bought propane bbq... we used propane until 3-4 years ago when one of our daughters was telling us how they loved their Traeger..
We bought one and gave away (to another daughter) the large stainless steel deluxe Costco propane BBQ. My wife loves it (and I like the flavor also)..
Some friends were over for dinner, loved the meat cooked on the Traeger and bought a giant Costco smoker/bbq unit (perhaps a Lousiana something?). They love it and I wonder if they will be selling now that they are downsizing and moving to condo..
My wife tells folks that you can cook less expensive cuts of meat and have them turn out great.