I tend more to go with Cataphatic. But when it starts to get in the way, then clear the table and go Apophatic.
The reason is really more what I am more familiar with, which is envisioning God with attributes. It's complex why that is, but it has something to do with some terribly deep psychological thing with me. To envision Absolute Love, allows me to experience that Absolute Love, and thus realizing it within myself. I have a saying that captures this. "When we accept ourselves with the acceptance of God, we accept ourselves to God". What that translates into is Freedom, to express our deepest creativity, our deepest genius. What holds us back from truly Loving, has everything to do with how free we are within our own Joy. If we don't know that, we don't truly know Life.
So God "with qualities" is what is presenting something to our psyche. That "something" opens us to that Creativity within us, which is normally blocked by the psyche in its self-contraction from its own liberation in the face of Life, when it 'surrenders' itself to Love itself. That can only be done by allowing an image of the divine to guide one along its path to Itself.
Where Apophatic comes in for me is when I have that nasty habit of bringing expectations with me into meditation.
What was opened to us in meditation through what are really spontaneous images of the divine (Cataphatic), becomes something we sit down and start looking for again, which is in fact not spontaneous but deliberate and forced. This is what coming in with expectations creates. So to get rid of that projecting God from the ego (which is exactly what that is), it's good to clear the slate, to dump your expectations outside at the door. Empty yourself to God, without expectation, without hopes, fears, without desire, without thought. God is not what you think. You die to all of that in you and let go into the Void. And in doing this, you become open to that which is beyond thought, beyond attributes. It is the Ocean out of which God arises.
And then you become God, and that's that.