Every other stereo technique commits you to a width the moment you place the microphones. M-S records the ingredients separately, so how wide the recording is stays an open question until mixdown — and its mono sum is provably perfect.
Every technique so far commits you. You choose an angle or a spacing, you record, and the width of that recording is now a property of the file. If it turns out too wide or too narrow, the only remedy is a processing tool guessing at what you meant.
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