A couple of reasons: - SDFs are much more amenable to direct manipulation by humans - SDFs potentially can be decomposed into more human-understandable compon

A couple of reasons: - SDFs are much more amenable to direct manipulation by humans - SDFs potentially can be decomposed into more human-understandable components - SDFs may provide a better mechanism for constructing a learned latent space for objects (see eg DeepSDF) - Some rendering engine targets may play more nicely with SDFS