I'm using SSH certificates to manage a few nodes in my homelab and it's a pleasure to not have to deal with managing the known_hosts file on my clients and authorized_keys file on my servers. There's only 1 line in my known_hosts for my nodes and authorized_keys doesn't even exist on any of my servers. If I add a new node to my homelab, I don't have to make any changes in known_hosts or authorized_keys in the existing nodes and it's easy to bootstrap the same known_hosts and sshd_config that I use everywhere in the new node.

SSH keys would make managing these few nodes a lot more complex that it is.