If you can afford a Gore-Tex model dry suit, it is worth it. You'll be drier, much drier, because Gore-Tex breaths. Coated nylon is waterproof, but you get damp/wet from your own perspiration.
Hardly anyone is buying coated nylon suits anymore, especially if they've tried a Gore-Tex suit. So a Gore-Tex suit also holds it's resale value better if you ever want to sell it. If you use the suit on multi-day trips where there isn't any way to dry your clothes overnight, the Gore-Tex is a huge advantage because all your clothes stay dry.
And by the way, yes, Gore-Tex works fine in salt water -- we go snorkeling in ours and come out dry!
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