To me, the perks were quite apparent.
Having an aging A1200, which is as expanded as it gets (unless towered),
I could now try out all of my favourite gfx-apps with RTG etc.
(I still find some of them doing a better job than modern-day pc-apps)
I could also have different environments that allowed me to run some of
them really old apps and games (1.3) without having to run a 'degrader'.
And as someone pointed out earlier, it saves space collecting all the machines
in one. (I love emulating various consoles/computers).