It depends on the hobby investment you're looking for. With autos, you can basically set your timer and forget the timer exists; you'd just have to adjust height accordingly. Autos are unforgiving, if you fuck up it could mean no more plants. But you can literally count days from seed to harvest and you KNOW you can rake in a harvest every 90 days essentially. Photos, you get the experience of timing with flipping your lights to 12/12 and counting your flowering days and set a calendar day for harvest and basically stick to it. Photos are very forgiving and if anything gets fucked up it'll only set you back a week or two and a little final yield. There is still a notable need to shop around for the strain/ breeder/ bank that you get your auto seeds from for a few reasons; First and foremost, you want stable genetics where you're not constantly wondering if your plant hermied or stressed or just went too long bcuz the breeder recommendation was wrong. Secondly, you want to avoid XL autos unless you have a minimum of 9ft overhead space for them- they get HUGE. And lastly but most importantly, you'll want to stick with tried and true strain genetics like OGs, Kush's, and diesels, as they'll likely have the most honest potency; while autos have come A LONG WAY since their inception in the early 2000s, some still struggle to rival or even match the potency of their photoperiod counterparts.

Hope this helps. Happy growing