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A lot of perpetual calendars can’t be set backwards, only forwards. And they often don’t quick set. So setting one is an enormous PITA (there’s a Hodinkee review where Stephen Pulvirent had to spend the best part of a week advancing a perpetual calendar). You don’t want it running down or stopping if you can help it.
Something with a quickset date is not that much of a chore. No date at all and it’s the work of a few seconds to set.
Regal
The perpetual calendar is a good thing, but buying a winder so that you don't have to adjust the date & time when you want to wear it, to then have to adjust it anyway because of a shorter month (and time gains/losses since last set) is going to be annoying. I'd rather have the money in my pocket for another watch tbh.