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Well for one I see the numbers as they should appear and based on any output device I have an ICC profile for (soft proof). That makes editing an image based on where it's going pretty useful.
If you had an image that appeared two stops too dark and you cranked up the brightness on the display, the image would appear better to you. But did you really fix the issue? Was the file too dark or did it appear that way? So now apply tone and color to the mix (is the skin tones too magenta or do they only appear that way?).
The only method we have to view color numbers is using our displays or printing out the numbers. The later is a pretty expensive way to determine of the numbers are correct for the output needs.
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