My first pin was DE SW. It was a good way to get started in the hobby and I really do enjoy the game. I was able to get a fully shopped one with an immaculate playfield at a very good price. The biggest limitation is the rule set which has a scoring imbalance problem. You can get great scores by doing nothing but shooting the ramp all day. A Pinsider is now writing new code to fix this.
DE is a good way to enter the hobby at a lower price and still be in the DMD era. After playing the daylights out of this machine, I am comfortable ordering a WOZ ECLE. Kind of like taking the training wheels off!