Funny story. My neighbor across the street bought a kamado type cooker last week. Instead of dropping it in his back yard as he requested, they just put the pallet in his driveway which is on the side of the house and up a considerable grade. When I got home from work, I saw some young kid looking at a set of instructions, then looking at the pile of parts, then looking at the instructions, then looking at the pile of parts...
When I closed the curtains at dusk, he was still out there. Neighbor called HD raising hell because he had to pay the kid $65 dollars to assemble it and then they had to wrestle it down to his back yard. They ended up giving him $100 worth of in-store credit so he just bought some accessories.
My only, personal issue with a kamado type cooker is the lack of square inches of cooking space. I can do almost everything I could with a kamado, on my Weber kettle. Not sure I can justify parting with that kind of coin. I really, really want one though because, reasons.