"Eglu's are expensive"

Can't argue with that. Ours was second-hand, so not too expensive.

Easy to clean ... by maybe as newbies we are worrying too much about that, every week we take the whole thing to bits, scrub, leave in the sun for the UV to kill some more Bad Guys, re-assemble, easy-peasy

A wooden coup (or for that matter a plastic kennel that doesn't come to bits) can't be so easy - but before Omlet that was how everyone did it, right?

Summary: dunno, sorry