From my experience, zero turns beat you up vs something like a steiner or Kubota. If your land is easy flowing, golf course like, grass, then yes im sure a zero turn is great. We however traded a steiner 2300 in on a scag 26 horse, and instantly regretted it. We now have a Kubota b23 4wd. But we mow probably 10 acres of slants, hills, etc. If I had it to do over, probably would have kept the steiner. The Kubota is a nice little lawn tractor, but it's the awkward size of not really being big enough to do medium to heavy work....but bigger than a large lawn mover. It's It's 23 horse diesel I believe. Which sounds bigger than it is. I do give the kubota initial build quality advantage vs the others. By comparison I also have a new Holland boomer....and it has some chinsy build quality in some areas for sure. Not sure how much all that helps.