Staking Solana vs Staking on Jito to receive JitoSOl

I’ve been staking my own Sol for some time with a validator – it’s been fine, nice to earn against inflation in a passive way.

Question though, what are the pros / cons of just staking in Jito for JitoSol

I don’t have a good grasp of how liquid staking tokens really work and what the benefit of is it. I don’t really do a lot of crazy DeFi trades some people do by utilizing there LST’s but curious if there a benefit to acquire the liquidity I’m not seeing.