Comment by vedranm

Several reasons, but major ones (for me) are reliability (checksums and self-healing) and portability (no other modern filesystem can be read and written on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS).

Snapshots ("boot environments") are also supported by Btrfs (my Linux installations use that so I don't have to worry about having the 3rd party kernel module to read my rootfs). Performance isn't that great either and, assuming Linux, XFS is a better choice if that is your main concern.