Maybe because some of us likes to do something a bit more advanced than just blindly dumping items down into a big hole. For example setting up automated disposal of all the different items once they reach a certain threshold. Or getting proper value on your disks by only storing one item on each.
Made a little guide on how I like to set this up:
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/thr...and-guide-collection.42664/page-2#post-587528
