Budgie 10.8 desktop released with plenty of new features

Budgie 10.8 was released recently, bringing plenty of enhancements to this interesting desktop environment so here's a little run over what's new.

• New trash applet - a previously third-party addon is now part of the main Budgie project for users to add to their desktops.
• Magpie - a new soft-fork of GNOME's Mutter, to enable them to keep up X11 support in a good state. Eventually it will be a full wlroots-based Wayland compositor as they will drop X11 support to go all-in on Wayland.
• Privilege Escalation Dialog Improvements - when PolicyKit pops up an overlay for you to enter a password, you can expand a little details tab to see what exactly requested it.
• Battery Status Applet - you can now control system power modes and swap between Balanced, Power Saver and Performance depending on your system's support for it.
• System Tray Applet - now using the modern Status Notifier specification.
• Budgie Menu - had some menu category reorganisation to be more clear.
• Small theme refinements.

The question in mind is: why would you use Budgie? What does it offer that's better than say KDE Plasma, GNOME and others? If you use it, let me know why in the comments.