Define your hunt and then you can make sense of the shelter.
If you are doing a September high hunt, covering tons of ground in mild temps with proper rain gear, the extra weight of a stand up tipi is too expensive for one or two. Mind you I'm speaking of weight expense not $. If three or four can share a tipi and each have tarps for bed where you find yourself, I can see that.
If you are going to base camp, in the cold and spike out or day hunt out regardless of season, then the stove and tipi are awesome.
Tbob, in our wet cascades most are going to have an air mat/blue foam or both depending on comfort and temps. In addition if you are looking at real precip, many will either use a bivy inside the tent or a tarp rolled on their bag. I know that double walled tents are mostly condensation free but a couple days bunkered in and everything is tacky and wet. But if you are on a long range back pack hunt, a small shelter is heated quickly while eating your food on a typical gas stove. Form follows function. Tipis are for situations where weight isn't at a premium, base camp set ups or extreme cold where gas stove meals won't take the edge off a tent or dry anything.
I love my tipis but I won't be carrying one in September many, many miles in. I do also have an older SL-4 and it splits the difference nicely, especially if you measure and use a field expedient center pole. Mileage will vary of course.
