JSTL vs JSP Scriptlets

Question

I want someone to explain some points in BlausC\'s amazing answer in this question.

He said that scriptlets had some disadvantages, which are:

1. Reusa

Answer 1

I dont see that scriplets is too bad specially if you follows design pattern in it, I work a lot on spring mvc, in my jsp i just get the model data in scriplits, and i show it to the user using simple java code in html, i feel it give me more freedom than JSTL.