I have been using virtualisation for a long time (though I also ran Linux native on several macs, and that worked actually pretty well, including in the PPC era...). However, it is better to keep, have, and develop more options.
As an example, I mainly use Virtualbox with my Intel macs, and this one is NOT going to be available with Apple Silicon. VMWare seems to take forever to develop too. So that leaves only Parallels and UTM. So some options will not come to AS for some time or ever, thus it is good that the option to run native stays.