No goofing around trying to get some money and not getting killed.
Yeah that's the great advantage of the decent spawn weapons. Before they were implemented, the game was a pain in the ass: get money, bear the stress of anyone killing you and losing your money (and if so, start again), buy weapons, fight a time, log out, and next time you login start all this again...
If, as some of you have said, new players want to get in the action as they join the game, the old system was a waste of time to them.