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Why not is because they take a not insignificant part of your power: for an endurance ride it knocks the equivalent of 10W off your threshold power, which takes a lot of training to get back. And many people don't do need to do too much night riding on LEL so don't have massive power requirements, plus you have drop bags.
Depends on your objectives, though: if you are neither in a hurry nor in any risk of being out of time, it's not an issue.
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Why not? I'm not only making the decision based on LEL, it seems like a useful thing overall. But for LEL I'm not particularly keen on my lights or GPS conking out in the middle of nowhere, nor on having to fight for a plug socket at one of the pitstops.