As with any protocol and application, there's a big, massive, "it depends" on pretty much everything. There are pros, cons, tradeoffs to make that sometimes it's easier to just have the underlying platform make those trade-offs, or to surface those problems to the application layer for developers to decide how they want to handle those problems.

Folks shouldn't necessarily argue "one is better" more so than they should consider all engineering aspects of why you should use one technology over another.