Congrats. on your new hull Warren. If you are planning on doing lots of swimming, water skiing or scuba diving off the boat it would certainly be nice to have. Beats having to step on the cavitation plate of the main outboard (turned off of course) – from my water skiing days. If you don’t really have a significant need to be entering the boat from the water a lot, there is something else to consider. With a wood under glass transom, the less mounting holes drilled into it the better. There are lots of boats with rotted out transoms and each additional hole drilled through the transom into the wood is another potential water entry to get rot started, despite ones best efforts to seal them.
Except for the smallest of boats, the Federal Regs. require you to have a re-boarding device of some sort, so the fixed ladder would meet that requirement. For my boat I have a removable plastic and rope marine ladder that can be hung over the strongly reinforced rigger mounts on the boat although with a pod just above water level they could just slide up on it and then climb over the transom. Another re-boarding option is to have a rope tied from the bow to the transom which can be pushed down into the water about 20 inchs with your foot, which makes it possible to climb back up on some boats amidship without assistance.
As for getting hung up while playing a salmon, that has only happened to us once and that was on the transducer bracket. It was a decent played out Chinook out the side of the boat about 15 feet. We got it by hooking onto the line with the boat hook and pulled it in close enough to net. I can't see adding a fixed ladder would be a significant hazard to playing fish., On our boat at least, there is already lots of stuff back there, - main motor, kicker, transducer, trim tabs etc and it has only been an issue the once out of countless numbers of fish.