This is akin to saying that you prefer a horse to a car because you don't have to buy gas for a horse, it can eat for free so why use it?
This is akin to saying that you prefer a horse to a car because you don't have to buy gas for a horse, it can eat for free so why use it?
The first cars were probably much less useful than horses. They didn’t go very far, gas pumping infrastructure wasn’t widely available, and you needed specialized knowledge to operate them.
Sure, they got better. But at the outset they were a pretty poor value proposition.