Not just easier to set up, but its a truss tube that doesn't necessarily need to be collimated every time you set it up. That feature alone gives this thing a lot of appeal.

Good golly, I remember a time when Synta was just a source of cheap 4 inch achromats with poor QC. Now? They have their own excellent GOTO mounts, apochromats, 7 inch maksutovs, and now a totally new variation on the truss tube dobsonian. They sure have come a long way in the last ten years, eh?