Quicker CQC reaction. If some surprises you, you hip fire your way out of the jam. That's The Last Word's real strength after its fire rate.

Yes, I completely agree with you! However, Timur's has a rather terrible fire rate, so if you aren't hitting precision shots, it's likely that you will die. If there's a trick to getting precision shots from hip-fire, I haven't found it yet- it seems kind of random