What's the point of using Kinematic Rigidbodies anymore?

Ever since Unity 5, static colliders no longer cause a compute penalty when moved... the main reason why kinematic rigidbodies were used. If you need to move something around with transform, it was next to imperative that a rigidbody of some kind was attached. Now that Unity 5 doesn't recalculate the scene every time a static collider object is moved, what's the real point of using kinematic rigidbodies?

Thanks,
Elias

P.S. first post on the forum! yay!

 

It's still a useful toggle. Track velocity on a kinematic body, then set kinematic to false + set velocities and let it go "loose" again...

 

I don't see how its any different than disabling the rigidbody itself... maybe more compute efficient?

 

1. Kinematic Rigidbodies can be used to track Trigger collisions on child objects... actually this is the only way...

2. Kinematic is a handy way of stopping something dead in it's tracks, then removing all the forces / velocity and deactivating the Kinematic setting.

3. anti gravity, frozen time, ghosts... the list of practical uses is quite endless.