Yes, I absolutely envy my cat her sleep habits. Like she needs 30 seconds to go from fully asleep to a crazy cat, killing beast, mode. And then needs a minute and a half to fall asleep again - and that only because she needs to groom herself at least for a minute before going to sleep.
BTW when I started (induced) lucid dreaming, I was worried about having a FA, going into her room (she's there overnight because otherwise, I would get no sleep) and finding some kind of monster, turning it into a nightmare. I guess there isn't anything scarier than a huge cat hunting his or her owner. But I am rarely scared in dreams, so not a probable scenario.

I agree it's the result that matters, although it would feel good to be able to say "I can WILD".
I think WILD is seen as a higher technique in the lucid dreaming community for these reasons:
- It allows us to have a lucid dream whenever we want it, not relying on the randomness of DILDs
- WILDs are said to be more lucid and more vivid than DILDs because we are so close to our wake-like awareness and take it with us to the dream.
So we have this picture of a lucid dreaming master, who just lies down, has a WILD and goes to do something like creating a new universe. And then there are all those noobs who just go to sleep hoping for a lucid dream after repeating some nonsensical mantra, and maybe some of them get lucky once every two or three weeks
Anyway, I think this is an invented picture and the real masters just have more tools in their toolkit (being good at DEILD probably helps more than anything else).
Regarding the higher lucidity and vividity, my experience with WILDs or pseudoWILDs so far has been exactly the opposite, I think it's because being so close to waking world is confusing to me. In my normal dreams, I almost never dream about my home or local area or anything too realistic or relevant to my current waking life. Or it could be because I've always had to sacrifice a large part of my self-awareness to be able to fall asleep. Or just because I am not used to them. I am looking forward to more WILDs, maybe this will get better with more experience.