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I find no-gi to be much easier on the body than gi. It's easier on your fingers and your neck and spine, because unless inverting is a big part of your game you rarely get stacked. It's also much easier to make small adjustments to relieve pressure whereas in the gi as you correctly note people can put you in a terrible position and just hold you there. I find the sort of constant tension that's necessary in the gi much more stressful than the more fluid positions in no-gi, even though no-gi can often require somewhat better cardio as opposed to isometric strength (though of course you need quite a bit of both for either type of training).
I think I recall you being a brown belt who is mostly showing up to gi class to get "face time" with your instructor to get your black; you otherwise are shifting to nogi I believe? Might have been on reddit, in which case I am assuming you are both the same person.
This is pretty much what I'm planning on doing. Get my black belt from a gi place then maybe hop over to 10thp. I just don't think gi is sustainable for my body. Plus I can only be trying to get out of worm guard so many times before I start wondering what I'm doing with my life.