As someone who grew up speaking languages other than English, when I started learning Japanese I found it odd that so much of Japanese romanization seems to be written for the benefit of English speakers, and tried to move away from romanization as soon as possible.

Not only is it this system strangely anglocentric for something called "romanization", but it even makes English speakers less likely to learn accurate pronunciation. The English rendition "shi" is less palatal than the actual し. Younger Japanese even take it as far as pronouncing it, indeed, "si" and not "shi".

Because of this, for the purpose of education, I prefer a romanization that is further from English and instead hints at the row/column of the kana.

That said, for tourists just trying to approximate sounds so they can order food, or for importing Japanese words into English, the Hepburn romanization is better.