Poly hives vs cedar after four Quebec winters — is the difference as big as people claim?

Quebec, fifth year. I run five wooden hives and three polystyrene ones, bought partly out of curiosity, and after four winters I've got enough of a feel to be useful to someone deciding. Where poly clearly wins here: winter feed consumption is noticeably lower, spring build-up starts a couple of weeks earlier, and the colonies come through more reliably in the years when February is brutal. Where wood wins: they last forever, I can scorch them, and I can repair them with a saw and a screw. My poly boxes have dents from hive tools, one corner a mouse chewed, and UV has chalked the paint on the oldest one. Handling is different too — you can't lever a poly box the way you do cedar, and I've broken a rabbet doing exactly that. The thing nobody warned me about: condensation behaves differently. In a wooden hive the walls are the cold surface and water runs down them. In poly the walls are warm, so the coldest surface is whatever is above the cluster, and if you insulate the top badly you get drips right where you don't want them. My first poly winter was wet for that reason.