It’s much easier and faster to scan in the METAR TAF shorthand. I’ve never used the decode on AeroWeather, always the standard format.
Also when you’re copying down a new ATIS or METAR, you’ve got a snowball’s chance in hell of keeping up writing it down longhand.
And 100% agree the biggest safety issue is the 50odd pages of NOTAMs you have to wade through, of irrelevant and future dated stuff.
It’s probably fine for those with airline departments that filter them out in a nice briefing package, but for those of us doing international ops and acquiring them all ourselves it’s a bloody nightmare and a safety hazard.