I would say that's trading flavor for convenience, I definitely feel no pellet grill will provide the flavor of a stick burner and the ability to get as many distinctly identifiable smoke flavors. Most people cannot distinguish the difference in pellet flavors in a blind test outside of mesquite. A pellet grill forum of the past did a blind taste test using a wide variety of pellets a number of years ago. The SmokeFire might do better than the grills they had at that time, but is still not going to match slinging various log species. If you only sling one or two species, it might not matter as much. You definitely aren't going to get that same meteorite type bark very easily on a pellet grill.
When talking to friends about pellet grills, I always ask people what they plan to cook and what they want in a grill. Pellet grills aren't the greatest cookers, you could pick an arsenal of grills and outperform a pellet grill for all aspects, but they are a mixture of better than gas for flavor and better than charcoal and wood for convenience. I became a die hard pellet pooper fan when my son played soccer 10 months a year and I could fire up the pellet grill whenever we actually got a day at home and cook a bunch of food (to eat then and have leftovers on the busy days) while catching up on chores. I tried to get a offset and used it a couple times and realized that I've trained myself for the convenience of pellets and sold the offset after a couple cooks. We've also developed palates for the more subtle smoke taste. Smoke as a seasoning, not the main seasoning.