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by vedang 4388 days ago
Mutable data does not give you any ability to analyse actions over a period of time. For example: "How many people were active during the month of the Indian Elections?" Can't tell you today, because all the data has been mutated away.

Secondly, mutable data also means that you have less scope of drawing new insights from historic data. (Primarily because you never have historic data)