Coupled to better weather forecasting is that you can more easily afford the time to sit out bad weather - catch up later.
If and when you get caught out, you can turn and run more safely, and you can still heave-to, should you need to.
If you’re running from bad weather - sitting on 15knots for six hours will move you a fair way from where you were - hopefully to a better spot on the ocean. Firefly easily sits on 15-18kts with 30 behind, reaching more than 20 in the gusts with a bit if surfing, with reefed main and stays’l - an easy sail plan. The bow has not threatened to dig in at