Are there benefits between using inner-text or showing a binding?

I’m curious as to whether there’s a reason to use inner-text instead of insert a binding. When using the list generator, all the cells use the inner-text attribute but it means you don’t see anything when designing the page. So I tend to remove that and insert a binding instead. Is there any reason not to do this?

eg.

<td dmx-text="SiteID"></td>

versus

<td>{{SiteID}}</td>

The latter makes it much easier to work with.