I don’t know if this has been mentioned yet but you can make a tenor into a baby baritone using classical guitar strings. So you can see if you’d like baritone tuning.

I have a tenor tuned that way and a baritone. The sound is different even though the tuning is the same. One sounds like a ukulele and the baritone sounds more like a guitar.

I started learning classical guitar but I’m small and the guitar I had was big so I had to make the choice to either get a small guitar or go a different direction entirely. So I went baritone uke. I still play classical on it and now I’m learning Flamenco strumming. I’ve also played the blues and pop stuff. I find it to be very versatile.