@clarissa I get it. Too much of a good thing is still too much. If you are still looking to roast, remember your grill is simply a big briquette fueled oven. get thee to the Goodwill (or dig through your personal stash), and pull yourself out a dutch oven and pop that bad boy on your grill. The lid and method should severely reduce the smokey grilled taste.
Or pull out the slow cooker. or if you have an instant pot, try some stuff in that.
If you have one of those turkey roasters (also sometimes called a Nesco roaster) and an outdoor outlet, you can put it outside and cook with that. I do that all the time. Heck, I will also put the instant pot outside if I need to.
Or if you are truly crazy, like me, you can buy yourself a cast iron camper dutch oven and a couple of cinder blocks and bake a charcoal ring of hot coals, put your DO on it and then a ring on the top and cook with that. No smokey taste at all. I make carnitas like this, slow roasted in the DO.
I also embrace a whole slew of summer dinner salads and sandwiches! No heat involved!