If not able to stop using WhatsApp, how important is it to download it from the Play Store vs WhatsApp's website itself?

Hi everyone, hope you’re having a good day. I was browsing the GrapheneOS forums a while ago and recently discovered that WhatsApp actually provides their app as an APK in kind of a similar manner Signal or Telegram provide theirs as well.

Normally, I wouldn’t even consider to discuss anything related to WhatsApp installation in a place like this due to it being not an ideal messenger, however, curiosity got the best of me and I’d like to ask: for people that can’t really not stop using WhatsApp, does installing the app via the APK of their website provide any virtual benefit over the Play Store?

I can see the automatic vs manual updates being a con first and foremost for the APK, but not anything else asides from that…

Thanks a lot in advance!