Sarcasm aside, if it's for yourself and you know what to expect then it's all good. If it's for a client and there's a risk that they'll phone to complain after a year and demand that you re-lay their deck then that's different. We faced the same situation with siding (green larch) and made the aesthetic decision that we wanted the even spacing of dried timber (and since that was well out of our budget we ended up with douglas fir tongue and groove boards).