I try to shy away from top roping routes because a lot of time it's hard on the rope and you have to walk around or climb up to the anchors. Plus, the rope also gets in your way. You also don't get any pucker factor and focus from getting run-out when you are TRing cuz you can't get run-out, where's the fun in that??
Falling can be fun at times or at least exhilarating
With TRing, how do you learn how to take falls, place gear and trust gear to catch you? I'm a firm believer that the most important thing for folks learning how to lead trad is to take a fall on a piece of gear. I see a lot of people afraid to lead anything above 5.8 because they don't want to fall on trad gear.