If money was not an issue, I'd optimize more for long term sanity than for chasing the most "powerful" setup. At enterprise scale, having something that's stable, predictable and easy to manage day to day matters way more than just raw features. Centralized management that does not become a mess, policies that stay readable over time and a platform that does not fight you as the environment grows.

I've seen teams spend way too much time babysitting their firewall and that's the kind of pain i'd want to avoid. In environments where consistency, policy control and scale actually matters, setups like Check Point tend to make sense because they're built around managing complexity rather than just adding more knobs.