crooked pipe, professional opinion on options ie. direct rear vent?

Hi, first time poster here. We have had a wood burning stove as our primary heat source for ten years in this house. One thing we have never liked is the crooked pipe which has to bend to avoid a structural beam that runs inside and outside the house. We are renovating and prepared to replace the old Pacific Energy wood stove with a new better more modern looking one but want to know our options. We don't have gas here and there is no place to relocate the wood stove. I posted on another site, and people suggested all sorts of crazy options for covering the pipe that would likely burn our house down. I called our local fireplace store and the guy there is just a kid and doesn't know anything, so my questions for the professionals is this.

1) can you direct rear vent a wood burning stove? I see this option for other stoves like gas, pellet... but I assume there is too much smoke from a woodburner to vent without going above the roof line.

2) We could consider going to an wood burning insert (not gas). Can we direct rear vent an insert? I assume not for the same reasons. Do inserts provide anywhere near the same heat output as a wood burning stove? I would assume not as there is not radiant heat from an insert the way there is with a wood burner in all directions?

first picture shows our fire. Second shows what people have suggested but we can't do because it takes up too much space and there are windows on either side of the fireplace (see picture #1). Picture three shows rear vent, I assume the pipe goes outside and then up past the rood line as normal. We can't do that because of beam. Picture four shows what appears to be a direct vent wood stove??

Ideas? Thoughts? Thanks.

thanks for the responses. madison, it sounds like an insert is out because we need all the heat we can generate. Stump_Branch, yes, we have smoke spilling out of the firebox when first lit. Seems to have gotten worse though, so attributed this to dirty pipes. Waulie, exactly right but wife doesn't like the idea of offsetting the stove. I'm not so sure (we need a new hearth base anyway). BeGreen, yes, the angle continues outside, so is not a false corner. The beam is out there too, so complicates things more (post and beam construction). I'll enclose a photo of outside that angled corner. Just trying to figure out the options. Appreciate any further comments. Of course, function has to trump form... but that bent pipe is pretty ugly. Guess some black stone behind it running up to the ceiling might help make it less obvious? (the half brick has been removed).

Upon closer examination, it looks like repositioning the stove below the double walled ceiling pipe isn't an option due to lack of clearance. It is 24 inches from the wall with the window to the middle of the stainless ceiling pipe so the sides of the box would be too close to the wall. Looks like we're going to have to learn to live with the crooked stovepipe. Isn't that a country band; "The Crooked Stovepipes"?
Cheers.