I personally like it, not having to set up elaborate monster-relay closets, among stuff like controlling gravity and making water currents without detracting too much from the id1 experience is something I personally like quite a bit!
Don't get anyone wrong, I do like Quoth, but since I'm relatively new to Quake mapping, I wanna get a good feel for the id1 experience before I work on more complex stuff, if I plan on doing so.
I'm not sure if this has been talked about before, but I haven't seen much about it from the most recent threads, which I set to 100 per page.