Primarily, the time-to-recovery to an arbitrary point in time is much lower than when you use vanilla solutions, because Neon doesn't need to recover from a pre

Primarily, the time-to-recovery to an arbitrary point in time is much lower than when you use vanilla solutions, because Neon doesn't need to recover from a previous checkpoint (potentially hours of WAL), nor does it need a file system / data directory snapshot from around the recovery point. pg_rewind can only do so much, and snapshots require planning ahead for the need for recovery.