Unless you're unwilling to compromise on screen size or have some other extreme edge-case deal breaking scenario like needing the center-channel behind the screen, a projection home theater doesn't make sense. It's a waste of money and it's worse in many ways.
A lot of hobbies are like this. The expensive stuff there for some stupid reason people won't compromise on.
Part of why I went with projection is that it was LESS expensive, but that was ten years ago. I've been very pleased with projection.
I have the center channel speaker below the screen rather than behind, which would have doubled the screen cost.