I like pigtailing daisy-chained devices, mainly to avoid the wrestling getting the device into or flush with the box. 4 or 5 short stiff 12-gauge wires can be quite uncooperative to fold up and tuck into a small space. And on some lamp bases I recently hung in the basement, the screw tabs for the wires were flimsy enough that they wanted to bend with 4 wires attached. I did the pigtails, folded the feedwires and nuts up tight into the box, and only had to deal with 2 wires when pushing everything up into place. Much easier.
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