do you live in a high humidity area or not? For me, it's one more tool in the bag to do it "right" relative to my changing environment.
in winter i cut and hang entire plants or at least full sections of the plants for easy hanging between forks... very dry (and a bit cooler) inside my house due to furnace running. I want to slow the process down as much as possible.
in the summer i like to use mesh racks and cut down to similar sized buds or similar total mass if smaller buds together. I get 80-100RH and fair amount of heat, so it's quite wet.