I also keep hearing that wood frame and aluminum siding is, cheap and entry level. Sorry, that is not a true statement.
Our Sunline Solaris is a high quality camper with high quality appliances and features throughout. Their 3 year warranty backed it up. Sunline offered the same exact quality build camper in a hard sided fiberglass or aluminum sided with Krystal coat on it. It was an option, not a quality shift. Unfortunately Sunline was one of the 1st to go under in Nov 2006 with the down turn in the economy. That is another sad story in itself, where we lost one of the quality camper manufactures of travel trailers, 5th wheels and truck campers.
As to wood verses aluminum, see where what NuWa says about it.
http://www.nuwa.com/faqs/questions/11/ NuWa like Arctic Fox still recognize wood as a material of choice when used correctly as all aluminum framing is not the right way to build quality.
http://www.northwoodmfg.com/images/rsync/brochures/Arctic_Fox_Brochure.pdf See page 5.
As far as entry level, I started with a back pack and 50# in it. That is how I entered camping. I considered myself on top of the world going to places located in God's country in the wilderness with hiking stick or a paddle in my hand. We now haul 10,000# of camper and "stuff" and still go camping in God's country just the trail is little more paved. You will never find one stitch of trash or messed up campsite where we have camped due to respect for nature and my fellow camper. As far as the neighbor next to me, they can be in a 1960 VW camper bus with a peace sign on it or triple slide tag axle diesel pusher and I'll invite them over for campfire. How ever you entered camping, good for you. The world would be a better place if we all went camping and respected each other like we should.
Camp on!