I bought a Benelli SuperNova Tactical in a group buy here on NES back in 2010 or 11 - astoundingly good pump defense shotgun. Their rotary bolt system makes it very smooth to run, available with a pistol grip stock (although after shooting both I prefer their 'ComfortTech' stock for absorbing recoil from slugs). safety can be swapped to left hand, ghost ring sights are excellent, and not priced anything like Benelli's semi-autos. Shoots slugs very well. Mine is somewhere around 1k slug through it - no problems, no broken parts.
Down sides:
Fixed choke - It would be an excellent turkey gun as well, if it had removable chokes. This can be changed, but will need a trip to a smith.
Barrels - no aftermarket barrels, difficult to find Benelli barrels, and they're priced such that it makes more sense to get a second SuperNova than a second barrel.
Aftermarket - more limited availability. To put a rail for a red dot and a mag extension on mine was not cheap. At the time, Nordic Components. Not sure who's covering them now.
Availability - It wasn't common to see them before the past couple years record sales, and I'm betting they'd be tough to find now.
ETA: Reread OP's question, realized I dodged it. As you move up from the $200-300 mystery shotguns, what you're buying is workmanship, reliability and factory support. For a field gun where the worst case for a failure is a missed clay, or not having a tasty animal for dinner one of the cheap pumps is fine. For a home defense shotgun, reliability matters. At some point moving up the price scale, you start paying for features since reliability becomes common.