I do like the planning poker for the same reason. I just find that people use story points overly granular. E.g. when using Fibonacci series, what is the point spending time discussing the minute difference between 1,2 and 3 points.

What I have liked in the past, is just using small, medium, large or unactionable.

Or with the right team/managment, not using estimates at all, just have people pick up the tasks they feel confident that they can get done within a given time frame after having the discussion in the group about differing opinions on complexity.