Workflow vs. assignment engine

Is there any advantage of using the assignment engine vs. equivalent workflow rules?
I find the workflow more powerful in terms of use of expressions and flexibility.

I assume that you are trying to assign Owner to a record.
Assignment Manager
- Assign Owner,Territory, Team of users to Account and Opportunity Objects.
- Assign Owner to Lead and SR objects.
- OR operator is not supported in Rule Criteria. You can only have AND operator.
- Rule Criteria Value is limited 255 characters.
- You cannot import Assignment rules.
WF
- You can assign Owner, Territory or update any other field based on your WF Rule condition. (with R18 you can add a wait condition on a New Record event to update a field. We didn't have this option in prior releases)
You will most likely update the Owner Id and Territory Id fields.
- WF Rule condition supports up to 1024 characters and you can build complex expressions.
If you need to assign Team , then AM is the only OOTB solution. Otherwise they both should work.
I am not aware of any performance impact of using WF over AM.

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