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Gates was my favorite when I was in KC on business.  That was 20 years ago so I can't speak to it now.
Once you lure the tourists here with advertising that the tax pays for, they’ll have no choice but to pay the tax on their hotel… devious >

It’s common. Kansas City built a large arena and added a tax to hotel rooms and rental cars. Visitors to Kansas City paid for the arena. >

People visit Kansas City? >

I visited there for Christmas a few years back, and once or twice before then.
KC has some nice museums like the Nelson-Atkins, and the toys and miniatures museum. I was also visiting someone who had tickets to the symphony so I had a chance to see them and enjoyed it. 
Arthur Bryant's was good but not the best barbecue I've had, and it seemed like there were huge gaps in what was available at markets in different parts of town (places like Cosentino's closer to richer areas had better selection). Of course it was really cold (some 0 and -2 days when I was there), but I felt like as long as I dressed appropriately it was fine, and that's as someone from Los Angeles. I thought it was a nice enough city even if I'm not itching to move there >

We have like 40 BBQ brands.  they’re not all to eveveryone’s taste
though it was interesting finding Arthur Bryant’s sauce in an Amish store in the middle of eastern Ohio once. >

I still thought it was really good; we had a big group so I did try everything. The burnt ends were the best! I did have the sense that the sauce is supposed to be the star at AB's. >

I prefer one of their sauces, not a fan of the other two.
Joe’s is my favorite, followed by Jack Stack and Gates in no particular order.
Q39 and Rosedale are popular too.
Smokestack has great cheesy corn, we go there a lot.
Someone could eat local BBQ twice a day and take weeks to run out of options.
Our grocery store has a BBQ sauce section as big as the salad dressing section.