I was sceptical at first - but the windows key + shift + s shortcut really made it work for me! (I know I could have mapped Snipping Tool to a macro easily enough but... I didn't)
EDIT: Oh, also the fact that it automatically copies the snip'd area to your clipboard is nice.
It's already part of Windows, and it's not. But you can bind Snip & Sketch to the Print Screen button in the Ease of Access settings.
I used to use the snip tool all the time, but I switched to LightShot since they started indicating it would be deprecated. Glad I did, lightshot is so nice.