Also, much more sensible defaults.
For instance, I've used this to edit a manpage with a live preview to the side in another window. Doing the same thing with screen would require running vim inside screen, and doing window management with both screen (for terminals) and vim (for everything else).
It's also nice sometimes to do something and then be able to search through the history with "/". At times I've then gone back and cut and pasted between the terminal output and a document I was working on, rather than using my window manager cut and paste.
I was, however, fairly surprised that I could no longer ":sh" out to run something. Had to get used to ":term" or ":spl term://bash".
Honestly, :sh always felt weird in vim.
Either you are in a terminal, and Ctrl-Z is a much better experience, since you maintain your existing session.
Or you are in the GUI, and the terminal emulation is poor and slow.