I prefer perpetual contracts. Leveraged tokens are bad news

There is a reason they are not popular and also why some exchange even end up delisting them after sometime. Yes there is no outright liquidation, but that rebalancing mechanism is messed up and isn't as straight forward as perpetual contracts.
They may not have "funding rate" but they do have those weird fees. Subscription fee, redemption fee, daily management fees on top of trading fees. I would rather go with funding fees that are sometimes negative or positive, and you get paid depending on your position