No need to memorize my nightmare. Bad enough I gotta live it.  LOL
Besides it gives me a closer look at what is new out there in case...yeah right!...I decide to abandon my gorgeous platform for something more.....uhm!?.....useable?  :)
Yeha you would think. But let me give you an example of when that does NOT work/.
Say you got a long hair style that as a conformer allows you to push the hair back off the back to make it appear wind blown.
If it is conformed it works fine the way it is supposed.
But if parented to the head and you want to make the hair fly back by selecting the tips of the mesh hair for example and giving it a bend back the tip stays put but the crown of the head moves either forward or backward off the head needing to refit. It really is a royal pain in the....well....since I use my hands on the mouse I will keep it clean but you know where the pain lies!  ;)