My opinion, yes. It is simpler and cleaner.
By cleaner, I mean, for example, that everyone installing crimson from scratch has an initially identical system.
As a data point, when a new LTS version of Ubuntu is released, they don’t even offer the upgrade from the previous LTS version until the first point release update to the new LTS version comes out. So the only way to run the LTS version immediately is to install from scratch (unless you really want to be on the bleeding edge and force the update before it is offered and are prepared to deal with whatever mess ensues).