Aesthetics?
If you want a 'skeletal' look.
I really do love the looks of my Gyro as an art object.
Brit press sometimes claim suspended belt decks have more "PRAT", whatever that's supposed to mean.
I think you can blame Martin Colloms for that term. Naim amps used to have it - all the higher order, IM and crossover distortion coupled with bandwidth limiting and unshielded pre-supply-power interconnects reducing the stereo separation figures to poor levels up top, which kind of gave a 'percussive kick' to the mid bass and upper mids. Our 80's domestic stereo's of the time were more like domesticated PA systems, what with the music we played back then in our relative youth. Not sure 'we' ever put it down to the suspended decks, as I remember the Linn-Naim-UK-popular ones (first gen Heybrook TT2, Systemdek IIX, Manticore Mantra, all playing second fiddle to the Glasgow made Thorens TD150 based model
) tended to have an equally turgid but 'tuneful' bass and coloured tone. Neutral springy-decks like the AR Legend, Pink triangle, Voyd and so on were sniffed at back then. I then discovered Notts Analogue, a tiny concern but one making solid plinth designs which removed most LP colourations as much as the ****** black plastic would allow and all these springy affairs faded into obscurity for me back then. Notts decks are better finished than they used to be but still not up to the lavish oil-rig confections of today, so unfairly ignored I feel.
In fairness, the LP12 deck is significantly better sonically today, but costs are mad and updates cost a bomb. Got to say the Gyro makes for a wonderful looking thing even when not in use, seems to last well without tarnishing and the company has been fair up to now with parts prices and so on I think.