Does anyone have regrets about cordwood?

That's all I really want to know. I think cordwood buildings are beautiful and wondered if anyone has had regrets or discovered major drawbacks with the technique over the course of a few years (or more).

I observed a cordwood building a few years after construction stopped. It had not really been maintained, but did have an intact roof and eaves.

It seemed to back up my concern that all the exposed endgrain is just plain to vulnerable to moisture for my taste. It was not about to fall apart, just lots of cracking in the wood..

Not such an issue drier places perhaps.. I live in coastal BC, and the building in question was right at the very northern end of California.

. My big concern (in a dry area) is the logs shrinking which would require some wierd chinking to resolve it.

I have no first hand experience though.

I guess it seemed to me that in a consistently dry climate the wood might split a fair bit, but then stabilize and you could chink the gaps.. a hassle still.

Whereas in a wet climate with dry hottish summers you get the splitting but then you get moisture penetration/absorption, and swelling. So chinking the cracks seems... perhaps suboptimal if not entirely ineffectual..

If I ever did any, it would be in a cob wall, and only exposed on the inside of the wall. At first glance seems like this would solve a lot of problems... but I haven't really looked into it in detail.