I didn't want the restrictions that come with pulling a camper and finding a spot for it and I didn't want a cab over since I seem to already fill up my crew cab 8 foot bed and topper with gear every weekend. Plus where do you put coolers and dead animals with a cab over? I'm probably gonna have to even throw the Thule on this year with an added kid to haul all our crap. I've had the Cabelas dome, 8 man SO, and still have a SO cimarron. They're all good tents for their intended use. For an every weekend family tent with kids or a base camp where space/weight isn't an issue, the AO just can't be touched.
I have an AO 10. The igloo seems to me more of a hunker down tent targeted for winter use and we wanted more vertical walls because I'm tall and it's easier to fit things like a pack and play in. I think we camp pretty close to every weekend from the start of spring bear in early May until we catch our last coho on the KP sometime in October. Then maybe just a few times between october and may. The 10 has been plenty of room for two adults and pack n play plus gear. I think we will be fine with 3 of us on the floor and a pack and play this year. Another kid and we will have to upsize. I didn't want to go any bigger because I fly it out to moose camp and it wasn't necessary. Other than moose camp, I run a buddy heater (I've even flown the buddy heater and propane out when my weight allowed). When I use a stove, it's the SO one that I bought with the 8 man, not sure which size. If I was heating with a stove while camping with my family, I would need a larger size tent. I looked into the NuWay stoves, but I just don't see the use for them unless it's legit winter and you plan to run the heater for an extended time. Even February on Kodiak we hardly ran the heater. Moose hunting we run it for maybe 15 minutes in the morning and that's it (unless we need to dry gear which we usually need to sit in the vestibule while the tent cooks). I don't seem to have an issue with drying stuff out with my buddy heater. Maybe it's the fabrics on the AO? I don't know, just always seem to get stuff dry I guess and toddlers in the summer get stuff WET! I'm guessing it's because the "wet" burn of the propane just transfers through the tent fabric as it's designed to do and doesn't get absorbed in clothes like it would in one of the other tents. The wood burn admittedly dries clothes a bit faster.
The vestibule is a great size for storage when away from camp. A lot of weekend we don't even bother to put up our canopy, we will just sit in the vestibule if it's raining. Finally, the fact that the tent is always dry inside is what completely sold my wife. The soaking wet tent walls are what she really doesn't like about the SO tents (that and the whole missing floor with kids crawling around thing). Obviously there a liners for those tents but it's still no comparison. Again, SO tents are great tents for their intended use and I love my cimarron, but not great for my family's intended use. In addition, that fabric used on the AO tents almost seems to insulate. Unless it's below 40