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Originally Posted by cytogenesis
I'm having trouble understanding your first paragraph. Are you speaking against only tire swapping or vise versa? Sorry for my confusion.
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Both have pros & cons. Having another set of wheels with other season tires may let save some money on not remounting tires on wheels & balancing them each year twice at tire shops, especially if you change wheels yourself (i suggest getting better then stock jack and easier to use wrench though instead of those stock in boot, for easier/quicker DIY wheel swap). Also permits usage of different sized wheels in winter (eg. smaller ones, for more comfortable ride on bad roads in winter, cheaper tires (for me same brand/model of tires of R16 tires was 150eur less then R17)). And if you have expensive aftermarket wheels, lets save them against damages during worse weather/roads season. From cons: you need to have another set of wheels (if you bought aftermarket wheels, you still have your stock wheels set though. And if you have nice stock alloys, you can get for cheap used another alloy set or new cheap steelies set for winter), and as i noted in quoted post, for several years/seasons in a row used/stored tire-wheel combo may get disbalanced for few reasons, thus wobble when driving, so sometimes separate remount/rebalance might be needed.
Reusing same set of wheels, just remounting winter or summer tires on them by season, on the other hand can let save some money on not getting 2nd set of wheels, lets have nice looking and possibly lighter wheels all year round, enables usage of some storage services for storing other season tires when unused if available in neighbourhood, not in your flat/house and you get tires rebalanced on each mount. But among cons: paying twice a year for remounting services, lower comfort & higher possibility to damage wheels in some winter road holes due lower sidewall profile with less flex/dampening, possibly need to get too wide winter tires to fit wider wheel width and also maybe pay more for tires.
I'm not advocating 100% pro or contra one or another. Everybody may have his own preferences/priorities.
In addition to post of JazzleSAURUS, if you DIY, remember: 1) tighten lugnuts in cross order (1-4-2-5-3), 2) after driving 100-200 miles check/tighten nuts again if needed, 3) tires are worth to store in place not subjected to direct sunlight/rain/snow, 4) imho better store on side, not vertically.