It depends. Are you going to use it? Can you sell it? Can you move it yourself? Can you store it for free? Will it save you a rental charge for stands? Will you be charged a cradle storage fee? Can you use your own stands in the yard of your choice?
I've had one boat with a cradle (23) and three without (26, 33 and 36). The 23, 26, 33 were in New England so I hauled them yearly. The 23 cradle fit in the back of an 8 foot pickup bed so I could move it and I had a yard to work on it. There was no cradle storage fee in summer at my boatyard back then.
I bought the 33 from 50 miles away and traded the 26 so having no cradle was nice. I needed stands for both but don't remember if I paid an extra fee during storage, probably.
I had the 36 shipped and the trailer didn't/couldn't use a cradle. I would have had to decide what to do with a cradle. I would have tried to sell it and then abandoned the cradle if there was one. I haul every three years and pay for stand rental.
For a larger boat with a larger cradle, I would prefer owning my own stands to owning a cradle because you can store and move them easier. Also re-sale is easier. However, I suspect many yards these days would fear the liability of customer owner stands and not allow them. In the north, where you haul every year, having a cradle is common, not so much as you move south. They become less common as the boat size gets bigger.
Mark