A goto telescope is the right purchase for a specific person and the wrong one for another, and the difference is not budget. It is which of the two obstacles you have: finding things, or seeing them.
If finding is your obstacle
Observing from a city where too few stars are visible to navigate by, or having tried star hopping and found it frustrating, makes a computerised instrument genuinely transformative. It will drive to hundreds of objects that you would otherwise never locate, and it tracks them while you look.
If seeing is your obstacle
Then the motors are costing you the thing you need. At a given price a goto instrument has roughly half the aperture of a dobsonian, so it will find faint objects and show them faintly. Buying finding when your problem is light is the commonest mis-purchase on this shelf.
What to look for in one
A mount that settles quickly under the tube it carries, a hand controller or app you can use in the dark, and a power arrangement that lasts a session, because flat batteries end goto sessions more often than clouds do. Alignment routines differ in fussiness more than the catalogues suggest.
The cheaper alternative worth trying first
Push-to. A phone camera or a set of encoders tells you where the telescope is pointing and which way to move it, with no motors at all. It solves the finding problem for a fraction of the price and leaves the money in the mirror, and several dobsonians now include it.
Questions people ask about telescope
Is a goto telescope worth it for a beginner?
If you observe from a city or have found star hopping frustrating, yes. If you want to see fainter things, aperture is the better purchase.
What is the best computerized telescope for beginners?
One whose mount is steady under its own tube and whose alignment routine you find tolerable. Both matter more than the size of the object database.
Do goto telescopes find everything?
They drive accurately to anything in their catalogue. Whether the instrument then shows it depends on aperture and sky, which the computer cannot help with.