I see YouTubers amongst other people talking about lava farms every time they see dripstone. They seem very excited when they see

✨The Dripstone Cave✨

-and immediately mention lava farm.

Why? Doesn’t it take literal hours irl to get a few buckets? Isn’t it quicker to fill 10 buckets from a lava lake in the nether than to make 10 buckets from a lava farm?

What makes a lava farm so appealing? Why wouldn’t you take the opportunity to drain an entire nether lava lake?