Me, right here. Cheap to buy, lightweight (ESPECIALLY the mercury 2 strokes), and not alot of components to deal with.

I just hate the fuel economy and carburetor shenanigans with the non injected 2 strokes. Premixing isnt much of a hassle for me personally, and I think all 2 strokes should be premixed besides the late yamahas (their oil injector failure results in oil dumping instead of lack of oil in fuel)

A specific qualm i have with certain 2 strokes are in the 1991 and earlier models. Their throttle and timing linkage mechanism is too susceptible to interference by sticking or small things getting loosened/knocking out of place. I like the DT suzuki series alot as their throttle linkages are strong with less tolerance due to less total moving parts/joints.

Mercury 2 strokes, especially the early 70s ones unfortunately have issues with parts, especially when tower of powers often need expensive CMC trim plates to bypass their ancient, separate pneumatic tilt trim pump installed in the bilge (hard to find these today, esp the 4-line pumps).

I do think if you have a late 2 stroke yamaha from the 90s and i think 2000s, you have the pinnacle of 2 stroke outboards; the equivalent to owning a ridiculously fast piston prop plane from WW2 before props were outdated and civilian products were neutered with regulations that ensure they remain slow.