No probably about it Steven Raichlen featured these with a French herb coating, I did them with a thinner herb crust and they were great. I did the racks of Asda ribs on the spit this week.
They cook quicker and do pick up some smokey flavour and are not as intense a flavour as the traditional low n slow method. I daresay there is a "Drama" involved of de-spitting a couple of racks of ribs at a party we just hogged them ourselves...