Welcome to the forum.
I'm thinking your question can only be answered specifically if you identify what operation(s) you will be doing mostly.
In my recent limited experience, I love my 690 Porter Cable, primarily because it has both 1/2 and 1/4 collet and is handy and relatively lightweight and powerful enough for what I do. Mounted it into my Woodpeckers router table with lift.
I also have an old school Black and Decker 2 hp plunge router and two more 2 hp fixed base routers, one a B+D and one an ancient Porter Cable. They are all 1/4" collett only, and thus will be relegated to only a small portion of the bits I have and their use. I bought 3 of these used and cleaned them up, cost me less than $50 CAD each, and they work fine. Going to use them like my various PC drills and impact drivers - each router gets a dedicated bit installed, so it's always ready to go; plunge will likely be used for circle cutting, the others for corner beading and trimming.
Probably going to buy a bigger 3+hp 1/2" collett for the table eventually, and would like a 1/2 capapble plunge router - loved my old school 3-1/4 hp Ryobi from the early 90s - thing was a monster.