We can point out corner cases for both approaches till cows come home. Yes, both of them have advantages and disadvantages, engineering is about picking the ri

We can point out corner cases for both approaches till cows come home. Yes, both of them have advantages and disadvantages, engineering is about picking the right compromise. So yes, there will be cases where you would be better of with the other approach... for a while. But the approach is not being picked just for today and for the current state of tech. For the same reason, you won't lock yourself into unnecessarily complicated software that is going to be permanently buggy, and to be obsolete soon -- just like you would not appreciate being locked into Psion/Symbian-like memory management today, despite making sense, solving a problem and being more effective years ago. This is exactly the same case. That software is going to stay here for decades... you RX 5700XT is not.