I create course websites: multiple ones each new semester. They are all content heavy: videos, audio playlists, audio, PDFs, packages of mixed materials to download, images, and more. I would have gone crazy if I always tried to use Resources. I need something efficient, quick, and utterly reliable. That’s warehousing for me.
I took a little time to learn about warehousing and tools that work best for me during one break in the school year. Since then I’ve never looked back.
I fully agree that for simple sites warehousing may not be important, but for reasonably complex content sites it’s the difference between constant frustration (leading to madness) versus having a sane enjoyable life!