I'm a nitro fan, because I find it more exhilerating than electric. Electric can be faster, and it does have certain advantages like not disturbing your neighbors/enabling you to run in more places where noise would otherwise be a factor with nitro, and it's also easier to run in cold weather.

Still, for me the smoke and sound of nitro make it much more like a real motorsport. It's just exciting and addictive in a way that electric just plain isn't for me.. There is also a slight learning curve with nitro(but also with brushless..), which instead of being a problem I find to be an enticing challenge. Not everything IMO should be easy plug-and-play.. Nitro requires a bit of mastery, but that actually is part of the fun.. If you're a gearhead at all and love the sound of revving engines, then once you have a nicely tuned nitro engine screaming 30,000 RPM's in sync with your trigger finger, you'll know what I mean..

But there will surely be people chiming in and telling you why they like electric.. I would try to find a local race-track where you live, and just watch for an hour or two and see what you think for yourself.