However it's not as quick, and it's not considered the main method of navigating your windows. AFAIK you can't switch workspaces by scrolling there or have your apps list visible.
It has a unique workflow which clicks for people like me, even if they're on a desktop. It encourages workspaces by making creating and switching between them instant and seamless, and i like seeing all of my windows at once by just pressing the super key.
It's supposed to prevent unsigned files from being loaded by the UEFI (AFAIK) which could possibly help with rootkits, if it doesn't somehow sign itself. However, these are pretty rare if you don't allow sketchy software to access your boot partition, and will often cause issues with non major Linux distros.
Sure, I use an extension to get daily wallpapers, but here's the image for that day:
High quality link