jellyblade

If you're watching on desktop, you can change the youtube video's url path from /shorts/video to youtube's usual ?watch=video and have it play in youtube's regular player. You can also just have an extension do this for you, which is what I do.

The only upsides I see are for infrequent or one-off conversions where you might not want to go through the hassle of finding/downloading/learning the tool, and for unsupported platforms like mobile phones.

I suppose it brings awareness to the tools too if credited properly. Ezgif is one converter I've used a few times, and one of their info pages lists all of the CLI tools they use on the backend. That was quite handy to learn that gifsicle existed, something I was not aware of before.