Iglesias was a totally irrelevant situation to this question. He wasn't controlling it, he wasn't able to fully concentrate on what he was doing, he was attempting to rotate it, not just catch it, and I seriously doubt he knows every square inch of the Inspire that he was catching, the way most of us know our birds. I know EXACTLY where my blades are when I'm reaching up to catch it.
I launch from the case - it gives a good flat solid stable place to do all it's initial GPS searches etc, and it puts me out of harm's way if it goes nuts on take-off for any reason.
I land by nearly always hand catching; these things are so insanely stable under GPS, that I bring it down slightly ahead of me and a good reach above me. Reach up with my right hand while my left is on the throttle control, take a firm hold of the landing leg, and then cut throttle. The inbuilt electronics quickly notice it's stopped descending and cut the motors. It's vastly quicker than a fight with ground effect and prop wash to land on a case that's only slightly larger than the bird, and it keeps flying debris well away from the camera/motors/props/me
I do on occasions refresh my skills - such as just last night - at landing onto the case just for the fun and the challenge. I especially like case landing with FPV only, that takes some really smooth control, as the case in the video feed moves rapidly in and out of the field of view all over the place if you're not really smooth (and with ground effect even if you ARE smooth, it can be moving around a hell of a lot too), and be quite a nice little challenge. Far more risk to the bird of a tip over, or a trip over, doing it that way.