Pollution and home safety aside.
I found it nice to pinpoint my desired heat. It works so fast and accurate that I got consistent pancakes like i never used to before.
You can imagine an induction stove to work similarly to a resistive stove, only with your pan/pot being the resistive element. The slow part of resistive stoves is the heat transfer from the element to the cookware, so you can imagine how quickly an inductive stove heats that thing up!