The required degree of respect was exhausted by the question of what the advantages were. This rampant epidemic of wanting to dump everything into some kind of "container" and "image" was quite funny for a while, but is now just annoying.
I hereby humbly apologise for daring to participate in the comments section of Hacker News despite my autism. Will not happen again.
(But then where are "people like me" supposed to go?).