Unless you are elderly, at least give them a try. They are not hard to learn. Many people find them fun.
If you have limited shoulder flexibility or your forearms are too long to rack the bar properly, try power snatches instead.
I believe the take home message from that podcast was if you want to do them, can learn them, and are not physically inhibited from doing them, then do them. Don’t rule them out as useless to training just because you’ve heard that. See for yourself.
Personally, I love them.