Also, they are lighter and they last longer (more charges), have less internal resistance (don't get as hot, and longer runtime compared to NiMH of the same capacity).
But you are right in that the saddle lipos aren't as high capacity as the long brick lipos.
Frankly, saddle pack chassis configurations are designed around heavy (NiMH) batteries and assume that the heaviest(most massive, to be precise) component is the battery pack. They aren't as lipo-friendly as the 6-cell inline chassis in some ways.
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