past wedge
In a large world with many pads it can be difficult to determine where a ship is going. With many ship pads and locations waypointing them is not a viable alternative. Adding the destination coordinates in the HUD of the building is a minimal and very useful feature.
glass crane
what about when we want to set a destination just open the map and find the destination and set it?
past wedge
one of the last updates fixed that you couldn't have 2 destination pads of the same name. Now if you set a few they'll choose the available one during launch so you can have multiple places called 'xeno' for example and they'll cycle them (usually). It's not fool proof (yet?) but it's decent. Instead of having a 1:x setup, you can do a several:x and it should feed them all as long as throughput isn't crazy.
and i guess another point is that just the name alone isn't always sufficient to find the pad. Where travel time is still not super fast you'd still have to go to each destination to confirm the pad name. Just having the coordination of the current pad destination removes any of the issues outright since the coordination system is a base function of the map system.