The lower end of the lake, where the water is deep and the drawdown is felt least.
Deeper water removes the seasonal problem that affects the shallow upper end: cradles and structures here do not interact with the bottom during a drawdown, so that whole category of damage is absent.
What deep water also removes is a free annual inspection. On shallower shorelines a low winter exposes problems whether you look for them or not. Here nothing is revealed, so anything below the waterline stays unexamined unless it is deliberately checked.
Below-waterline condition, since deep water never reveals it the way a drawdown does elsewhere.
Exposed water shortens cable life. That is the single most useful thing to know about lifts on this side.
The land side of the problem, and the one most likely to be treated as somebody else's job.
A general home inspection stops at the shoreline. The dock is frequently the most expensive thing nobody looked at.