As you said the result is way more impressive. That is the main theme when you try to compare deep learning based approaches to traditional ML approaches especi

As you said the result is way more impressive. That is the main theme when you try to compare deep learning based approaches to traditional ML approaches especially in unstructured data(images, speech, text). Also, deep learning based approaches don't require too much fiddling with features. Main work involves coming up with NN architecture and loss function.