I really wish I could find the source, but I remember seeing a documentary done by the effects team for Star Trek DS9 and Voyager. They talked about the transit

I really wish I could find the source, but I remember seeing a documentary done by the effects team for Star Trek DS9 and Voyager. They talked about the transition from models on DS9 to CGI for voyager. The point that stood out for me was that they said what they missed the most from doing model based effects was the serendipitous shots they would get, be it an interesting angle, lighting effect, etc. The beauty of working in reality is that reality fills in the blanks. With CGI everything has to be planned. (I get thats not 100%, there's plenty of CGI plugins that generate random noise and effects, but its still not the same).