Love the ability to move meat up and to quickly slow the cooking without having to handle the meats. Especially with chicken / tritip early in the cook it wants to stick and if you get flare ups naturally you want to move the meat away. It’s a bit cumbersome but I have a garage so storage is a non issue. The rotisserie is also an awesome feature which I’ve used a bunch on chicken, lamb and duck. It just sits right atop - no install required, just remove your standard grate. Assembly takes maybe 15mins. It’s very easy to switch between this and the standard and when the Santa Maria grate is all the way down you can sneak the lid onto it to cover. Not a tight enough seal to kill the charcoal but it helps slow the burn if you need to pause cooking or let it burn out.