It's been a few years since I bought a guitar (I know, I know), but I just broke that streak with a 12-string that will get here next week.
I've always thought 12-strings were amazing. When I was 12 or 13, one of the old kids at church ("old" = 16 or 17) brought one, and when I heard him play it, I remember thinking, "Why would anyone play a 6-string when you could play this?" My very first guitar - a few months later - was a cheap 12-string Alvarez... which in hindsight was an extremely hard-to-play guitar, and a terrible choice for a first guitar.
I still feel like - in a way that's not at all true for 6-strings - there's a spectrum between "plays well" (the Taylor 655 that I owned for a decade and sold) and "sounds glorious" (the Martin DM 12 that I still own and keep strung as a Nashville high-string guitar).
Anyway, Taylor started making a 12-fret 12-string. Allegedly the shorter scale addresses a couple of those problems. Smaller body and shorter scale = not so gigantic and unwieldy. Also, shorter scale = slightly less string tension, so (theoretically) a lot easier to play barre chords.
We'll see.