- It frees you from writing the wrapper (duh)

- It probably have more niceties than a 5min wrapper (color, friendly defaults, etc.)

I've personally used a homemade find wrapper for years, but have now replaced it with `fd` (another find reimplementation). The advantages isn't huge, but I find the niceties I never bothered implementing - well - nice :)

That being said: I did get burned by the default behavior of ignoring hidden files :D

Would've been nice if it by default didn't show hidden matches, but printed on stderr - something like:

    $ fd thing
    foo/something
    ...
    >searching hidden files - ^C to abort<
    >hidden files found (29) - use `--hidden` to show<