Anyone ever go with Air Ride and then think, nah, this isn't for me?

[ModernMuseum]

I've been kicking around the idea of going with a RideTech air bag setup for about 10 years now on my LS3 powered 69 firebird: front/rear, 4-link, the works on my stock front sub-frame with sub-frame connectors. At about $10k-ish, this is a hard pill to swallow. I think is really the only way to get the ride height that I want (at least when parked): which is the front fender slighly over the wheel.

It seems that most people are happy with these setups, but I'm wondering if there are any outliers here who have done it but then went a different way.