You're not alone, I've never liked the look (or usually, the sound) of guitar-bodied mandocellos. Or guitar-bodied octave mandolins either, which is why I play a mandolin-shaped Weber OM (the larger one in my avatar image at left). If you're gonna play a big mandolin,
then play a big mandolin, is my thinking. Possibly influenced by 30-odd years of playing guitar before starting on mandolin.
I was fortunate in having the available funds to get into a carved archtop OM, which is a barrier for many folks. I did buy it secondhand. I'm not sure I would have risked it otherwise, not knowing if I'd end up playing it much. As it turned out, I do play it! Although not nearly as much as my mandolin.
Only you can answer that question, but maybe here's something that will help.
As I get older, I've started working backwards from the music I want to play, and then finding the right instrument for it. Instead of going the other way like I did most of my life, getting infatuated with the instrument first. It's why I've been playing more Irish flute and a little less mandolin now. The mandolin still has a place -- I have far more repertoire on it for one thing, because the uphill climb on flute is more recent. But I'm finding things on flute that I can't do on mandolin.
That kind of thinking has put the brakes on desiring a mandocello, which I've always thought about over the years since picking up mandolin. I can at least play Irish and Scottish trad tunes on my octave mandolin, although I tend to reserve it for the slower tunes. It's in the same tuning as the mandolin and "plays well with others" in a session.
A mandocello just isn't a natural fit for the music I'm interested in right now. Mainly due to the CGDA tuning (and also why a brief infatuation with mandola didn't last). It would only be for playing solo at home, and probably not very often. Very expensive for such limited use, because I'd have to play a carved archtop and not a guitar body 'cello. I would still *like* to own one, just to complete the trinity of F-style mandolin, octave, and 'cello. But I doubt it will ever happen.
Don't let these musings stop you if you have a strong enough interest! And especially if you can think of a way to fit it into the type of music you enjoy playing. I think it's one of the Mandolin Cafe rules that members are supposed to encourage MAS and not discourage it!
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