The benefit of JWT is only if you are using it in stateless manner. If you are storing a session_id which need to be verified for each call, you can as effecti

The benefit of JWT is only if you are using it in stateless manner. If you are storing a session_id which need to be verified for each call, you can as effectively reusing it as a normal session cookie, with unnecessary overhead and payload cost. JWT is useful only if you trust it.