The actual benefits of Conquest special path?

Basically it gives you more to choose from and notionally they tend to be better disks but by no means always. It also allows you to choose between squad specific techs or generic consumables in some scavenger nodes. TBH I think it’s been a bit oversold as a new experience- I’ve been slavishly following the special path and, well I don’t feel very special. However, as Bette Midler said, ‘the soul that’s scared of dying… never learns to live’