Why use Solidify over Extrude?

In the series, “Low Poly Landscapes - Blender Bite Sized Course”, under the heading “Basic Modeling”, video #8, “The Solidify Modifier”: Why did you choose the solidify modifier over the extrude, when both produce identical results?

Can you recommend a best case usage scenario; like when to use one over the other?

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Welcome to this site.

It is mostly about a non destructive workflow.

The modifier can be altered all the while it is not applied.
Extrude once done is set and is less easy to alter.

There is not much difference in the simple case uses of this course, just a good thing to learn.

Some like the modifier for everything route, other just model without them so much.

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Thank you, pleasure to be here. So it is a personal preference as well as non-destructive over the extrude. Perfect, thanks!

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