I probably don't get pellet cooking, but have only done hot and fast on mine (dabbled with a few 250 cooks) and there is smoke flavor and I like it.
On the pellet forums I started to follow after I got my crazy cheap pitbosses there was one standard theme that clearly has been going for all time on every forum and the posts of people searching for more smoke flavor goes something like this........every.....single.....time.........with no clear solution........:becky:
"Hey folks I'm not getting much smoker flavor on my 'insert literally any pellet smoker' at 'insert literally any temperature whether it low or high' I'm even using the amazin tube, adding wood chunks, trying witchcraft, smoking wood chips, trying every brand of pellets that people swear 'gives real smoke flavor', worshiping pagan gods, tossing in a burning stick of wood, adjusting my p setting, screaming at my dog/gerbil, doing the ancient Norwegian smoke polka dance, etc,.............and I'm still not getting 'real smoke flavor, what gives????"
The food I've tasted of my pellet cookers (or even comp guys doing low and slow) don't taste like any cooker that is charcoal and wood chunk based or a stick burner (which will never be in this equation). So the best advice I have is don't chase the dragon........you won't catch it.
Pellet cooking is what it is, an easy bake oven that still cooks bbq, just not as smokey at charcoal or wood driven cookers.
It's like the diesel forum folks trying to get more mpgs out of a truck built for hauling like crazy and not mpgs. They spend thousands and overanalyze all types of truck parts and....at its best....still does not come close to other types of trucks/vehicles they could have bought for mpgs :-D
And don't get me wrong, I've been there done that with tons of things and part of that "I bet I can get it to work" journey is just the "tinkering" because people can get enjoyment from the tinkering process, but my "easy bake ovens" serve their purpose of turn the dial and I have to put no other effort into this cooker......it's an oven that also smokes, does it better than a Masterbuilt electric smoker....and they do that extremely well :-D