You really must try a Chippy if you get the chance - the opposite end of the handling scene to the appalling Tiger Moth (which I found to be worse than a spamcan!). But like all aeroplanes it is compromised.
I am entirely willing to believe that the Chipmunk is the nicest handling aircraft ever.... It
is Canadian
. Would I want to own one? Maybe as my fourth or fifth aircraft, as the other more important roles I would like to fill for my recreational flying are fulfilled. But before then, My 150 can keep me proficient at the most simple aerobatics in a sloppy way, and, I can fly my wife, a bit of baggage and two folding bikes to the Bahamas from Canada in two days, and land and takeoff on a 500' long stretch of beach for a picnic on the way. If I dent it, or wear it out, I can get (or make) parts more easily than any civil type on earth. That keeps cost and down time to a minimum. For that, I willingly compromise sloppy ailerons (which, by the way, are noticeably better with the STOL kit I have installed).
I don't present any plane as being superior to another. Just pick the one which will do your job best overall. I DO get grumpy when someone tries to infect new pilots minds with the notion that any particular aircraft is "appalling" compared to another. Some are better, some less so, it depends what you're doing with it. Cessna 100s and 200s and Piper Cherokees are all massive compromises, but they do what is says on the box, and have done so for more than half a century.
Pilots have no shame in flying an airworthy aircraft, which is on budget, and fills their personal role.