JWTs are good for a bunch of things, one example being when you do NOT want to hit the database on every request, to speed up latency.. eg. in high-throughput I

JWTs are good for a bunch of things, one example being when you do NOT want to hit the database on every request, to speed up latency.. eg. in high-throughput IoT setups where you want to validate or discard the request before touching any DB at all