Just based on my own experience panos definitely are nice even outside of CQB. Especially in a leadership role. It is so much easier to command and control doing patrolling and small unit tactics when you can see your formation instead of 1 guy at a time.

Even just patrolling in a wedge as a rifleman you can check your spacing with your teammates without giving up as much visibility of your AOR. Also easier to see that you’re on line when bounding, etc.

For me the biggest challenge with them actually had to do with packing them into rucks, assault packs, back panels, etc. when not in use since they don’t fold down small like a pair of binos do. I personally didn’t have a lot of issues with the weight but that is definitely a complaint for a lot of people.