You need to really be into cooking before something like cast iron versus whatever else will ever be an issue in your life.

I yanked my set of cast iron out from under an abandoned single-wide trailer in the desert next to a junk-yard, they were partially buried in an ant mound. Over the last couple decades I have abused them hard, both in restoration and in cooking/cleaning, they’re just work-horse cookware I don’t have to be too concerned about, but if I put a little extra effort in I can use them to get a perfect crust on a ribeye when I cook meat for friends and family. If that kind of thing is important to you… well don’t worry, you can also get that with steel!

People who obsess about their cast iron just either really, really enjoy micromanagement in their lives, or have nothing else that makes them feel special.