You can get a good, stable model on less training data, which is great when your training data is expensive to produce Huh? SVMs don't perform better than NNs

You can get a good, stable model on less training data, which is great when your training data is expensive to produce Huh? SVMs don't perform better than NNs on less training data. I'm sorry, but the rest of what you said is out of date and wrong. CNNs work better than SVMs for CV tasks. There's no reason to use SVMs anymore for CV, and no one in their right mind does.