[lloda]

I don't run Emacs as a server because it freezes occasionally and it's very painful to have a couple dozen windows in eight workspaces go down.

If I could rely on Emacs never freezing, I'd be happy to run it as a server.

[lvass]

I have init manage an emacs daemon but open separate emacs instances if it's doing something important, even though it practically never freezes for me. I think this works fine as long as you don't have server-start in your config.