As someone who can hear fine and knows basically no sign language, that feels a bit like asking anyone why they prefer video chat to text chat. Text chat is alm

As someone who can hear fine and knows basically no sign language, that feels a bit like asking anyone why they prefer video chat to text chat. Text chat is almost always just slower. I can have a day going can and forth with someone over chat, or I can call them up and get the problem sorted in fifteen minutes. Obviously there's still cases where the discussion is small and specific enough to do over chat, or other cases where slower, asynchronous communication works better because I went to do other things at the same time, there's no one-size-fits-all communication method, but talking (be that via English, ASL, or whatever other language) is very useful to have in one's toolbox!