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From a programmer's perspective, capabilties are flexible and easy to use. Any command can check if a user has any capability, even ones not thought of when the bot was originally written. Plugins can easily add their own capabilities--it's as easy as just checking for a capability and documenting somewhere that a user needs that capability to do something.
From an user's perspective, capabilities remove a lot of the mystery and esotery of bot control, in addition to giving a bot owner absolutely finegrained control over what users are allowed to do with the bot. Additionally, defaults can be set by the bot owner for both individual channels and for the bot as a whole, letting an end-user set the policy he wants the bot to follow for users that haven't yet registered in his user database. It's really a revolution!
