I hear what your saying, but once you figure out how to hunt them other than with blinds and ambush setups, the rush is as good as it gets when a tom gets in range.Busting the flock and trying to find a hide while establish ing a conversation is hard to describe, gobbler gangs often take an hour to reassemble, but its worth waiting. I've seen flocks of scattered toms and jakes gobbling, strutting as they regrouped. It's as good as anything in spring.
Plus all that time in the woods allows you to improve your turkey vocabulary.
You can hear so much more vocalizing in the fall. Sometimes the giant gobbler groups of 1-1/2 year olds fly down and fight and gobble for 30 minutes before they finally quit and begin feeding.
I do not hunt hens and poults, but they are really fun to listen to at daylight. Or if they are scattered.
The older gobblers rarely make a sound though unless you bust them up.
I sure do enjoy hunting them in the hardwoods in the fall. Too bad it's a dying tradition and getting harder and harder to find spots to go.
The negative to me, imo, is they are sort of ugly. Not full plumaged, molting, uneven and ugly feathers. And a longbeard in spring might weigh 18-21 lbs. In the fall he'll only weigh 15-16 lbs with very small breast meat.