The ability to walk around does have some benefits for sure. One thing that seriously sucks about LAX these days is that the luggage that I check in Vietnam specifically for the purpose of NOT needing to roll it around LAX for 12 hours, well you have to take this back into your personal possession in LA, and the ticket counter for my flight to Mexico wont even be open until much later on. It's just all a bunch of BS. I'm packing light because of this but I might be subjected to being outside the terminal for 13 hours because I might not even be able to check into my onward flight to Mex until the morning. It's not gonna be great, but there is no real way around it other than spending 2x as much money. I think my time is valuable, but not $1000 to save 10 hours valuable.