I've never gotten the obsession with patch panels and small (laminar) patch cables on server racks. It seems to make more sense just to mount the switches on th

I've never gotten the obsession with patch panels and small (laminar) patch cables on server racks. It seems to make more sense just to mount the switches on the back of the rack, and run the cables directly? And then cables leading off the rack can just go directly from the switch (appropriately labeled) I do totally get it for building wiring, where the patch panel is used to bulk terminate cables going elsewhere into fixed 2-post racks, and the patch cords take care of the higher level concern of assigning switch ports. But doing it on a home server rack just feels like cargo cult copying that pattern for not much gain.