Overrated pros and cons I keep coming back to [v2]

The trade-offs here are not obvious to me and I keep flip-flopping. Mostly thinking out loud — feel free to push back hard. Long-time lurker, first-time poster.

Mostly thinking out loud — feel free to push back hard. For context, I am working with a pretty modest budget so high-end suggestions probably will not land. I tried three different approaches and none of them felt quite right.