Zero turn mowers

I have just started looking for a new mower for the 5-6 acres around the yard. The sales people are saying that zero turn is the way to go. What is the opinion on that compared to the front deck with rear wheel steering? I looked at a Kubota ZD331 with 72" side discharge deck. It has the Kubota 1261 cc 3 cylinder diesel- 31 HP. Shaft drive to the deck and 2B powerband belts driving the deck outer blades. Pretty impressive machine at a decent price. Toro and Grasshopper also shaft drive their decks and most have hydraulic deck lift. Today I drove a Bad Boy Outlaw XP with the 35HP 4 cylinder Perkapillar 1.6 liter. Checked out a site on this forum and the report was very good on that engine. 6000 hr engine!! Good strong 16 cc Hydro Gear pumps with separate reservoirs and coolers for wheel drives. Very well built deck. Nice Grammer suspension seat. Very accessible and impressive mower. Except the deck lift is a little electric linear actuator and the deck drive is just one long B belt that runs from the horizontal crankshaft down at the very back, bends 90 degrees forward to the maze of deck drive pulleys. Seems like a pretty lame way of lifting and driving a BIG heavy deck with 35 HP compared to other companies with much less power and not diesel power. I really like what I see about this Bad Boy except a couple of these things that look under designed . It also costs about $1400 more than the diesel Kubota. Any experience with these mowers out there? TIA.

Zero turn mowers