Speak for you own wife. 😋 I get it. It's completely impractical but it's my little get away and I'll spend a whole weekend cooking on it. My kids are older, my job is such that I can cook during the week while I work and sit on conference calls when I'm not traveling for work and I've never ever found the whole "you need to baby sit a smoker overnight thing". I've had maybe two cooks where temp got away. One was crappy lump that burnt fast and clogged air flow and the other was a bad storm that was crazy windy and increased the temp.
To each their own. I use the crap out of my Blackstone and my webers, just have never had a bad meal on the BGE. As you noted, I rarely order BBQ or eat BBQ other than what I cook because it just doesn't taste as good. You may eat my food and think I suck. I'm cool with that. Folks that argue cooking methods are weird. If it taste good to you, go with it. Don't tear others down for what they like.