I believe pretty much any type smoker can produce great results from a person with a handle on the fundamentals and enough experience with a particular type of smoker.
I really like offset fire box, reverse flow smokers (I'm most familiar with Lang 48") with properly cured hickory and sometimes some fruit wood. But, that's not the most practical setup at the home I have now so it would be nice to figure out how to get back into regularly smoking at home. It's a trade off for sure. I absolutely love the results, but having your phone alarm wake you up at 2:30a to throw a few more sticks in the fire box sometimes sucks. And my "sleep through the alarm" rate is not great.
My dad is a competent welder and we've been talking about building a reverse flow rig with plans from
smokerplans.net. It's just not something that is easily installed or removed and I don't really want a small trailer parked in my small back yard.