I never had either style but I will say one of the best features of our full inboard Tige was the platform at water level on the back. We lived on it
Dogs loved it too. Unfortunately the ducks did too.
Another favorite was the passenger bench (spotter bench) that faced rearward and angled slightly towards the driver.
Another was the transmission. You could smoothly go into reverse even with a fair amount of forward speed. It was a true car like automatic versus how outboards and I/O’s just ram the gears. Drives me nuts when folks change gear to slowly on an I/O and you hear them grinding. It’s like finger nails on a chalk board.
Least favorite was steering when in reverse, you had none. It would always pull to one side. And steering when moving really slow had very little response. Never had an issue but you had to plan for it. Transmission helped solve this because you could goose it forward to get the steering and then stop on a dime in reverse.