Within VLOS, you lose your ability to see altitude, distance from other obstacles, YAW, and many other kinds of information needed for safe flying. Maybe when you get a VR camera and sensitive microphone you can act as though you are in your own aircraft ... but that is not now.
So safety is reason 1 to stay well within VLOS. Reason 2 is the cost of your drone. When flying at the drone's technological limit, your chance of fly-aways and battery shut-downs goes up as does the likely hood of a crash into an obstacle or the ground.
Reason 3 is our love of freedom when flying drones. Rules, regulations, and built-in technological GPS limits will soon, in a negative way, impact our freedom as drone pilots.
So safety is reason 1 to stay well within VLOS. Reason 2 is the cost of your drone. When flying at the drone's technological limit, your chance of fly-aways and battery shut-downs goes up as does the likely hood of a crash into an obstacle or the ground.
Reason 3 is our love of freedom when flying drones. Rules, regulations, and built-in technological GPS limits will soon, in a negative way, impact our freedom as drone pilots.