...It is tempting. Especialy since they have widened the sight options now. I could fit a cheap red dot on it. Then have a blast....
Expensive for a "boat anchor" - no argument there, but pretty cheap fun if you can hand-load cast for it.
I think all the negative points made by those whom you've asked are 100% valid, but the positive points seem equally valid. It seems you are aware of both aspects already and only need to decide if a couple-hundred bucks-plus is a good value for the fun you intend to have with it.
For ME, a couple-hundred bucks fifteen years ago (before I started teaching), was nothing. Today, a couple-hundred buck is, as
@Petrol & Powder says, a lot of primers and powder, etc. Actually, I've been eyeing brass on Starline and trying to figure out how to split $200 between three cartridges or decide which TWO I should invest in at the moment.
The fun-per-dollar value for ME, isn't there on this one, but it IS for a lot of people I know and if they can afford to have one for fun's sake, I say "go for it." Also, if ALL they can afford is one of these, I also say "go for it."
Definitely a per-person, personal decision.
I remember buying a 9mm, Kel-Tec P-something-'r-other, under very similar circumstances, for $200, when I was working a "real job." Many disparaged the gun, but I wanted to
know and $200 was nothing. I knew people who blew that much on lunch, lottery tickets and energy drinks in a week. I got the thing and ended up CARRYING it. It was an amazing little gun with the most awfullest trigger I'd ever experienced,... except maybe the CZ 100, which was also (at the time) a cheap, but amazing little gun, with an abominable trigger.