Heavier aluminum boats

[OL_JR]

Just kind of curious and looking for opinions on the heavier gauge aluminum boats. It seems everywhere a guy goes there is lots of the common brands of boats like lund, crestliner, alumacraft etc. which are relatively lighter gauge either welded or riveted. Looking at some of the pricing on stuff it seems almost a no brainer to shoot for something in the heavier gauge welded segment like kingfisher, hewescraft etc.

I guess I'm just wondering why I don't see more heavier aluminum boats out there. For what a guy can spend on let's say a new pro v, you can get a lot of boat from the heavy wall welded manufacturers.