What is the point of cracking a card out of a holder?

[rainier2004]

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but some of us just hate slabs, TPGs and what follows with them. I grew up holding cards, smelling cards and checking them out to learn more about them. The TPGs have definitely substantially lowered the barrier of entry into the hobby as you need to know very little now in comparison and that can be a good thing. But I have also watched slabs make intelligent man act like morons with their shinny plastic. In the end, I feel if you are only looking for slabbed cards in certain grades you are giving away a ton of personal power as you are only buying what someone else's opinion is. I love breaking out cards, I break them out simply if I want to. The investment angle has become very old to listen to as well...its a hobby. I hate slabs...