Good question. Mostly I would like to lower my power usage and heat a little bit. And the auto balance stuff is nice for that. Yes, I can do that all manually but Its a lot of work to do manually. And If I'm going to do that I might as well compile my own firmware from the bitmain source.

Also, anything that locks down the ssh account is a big no. Since I have a remote management system that I wrote that uses ssh to change config and check stats.