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1. because it cleans up after itself. 
2. because your events and css on the widget clean up with destroy.
3. because you can extend the widget
4. because nobody ever needed one before.

I have a collection of widgets, one is the master sitting in a contentpane, the others are controls scattered around the page. When the masteris destroyed I need to cleanup the controls. It is cleaner to sit on asingle destroy event than on every possible action that could trigger thedestroy.When I have created or inherited from existing widgets I have overriddenthe destroy method to add a destroy event.

By the way, create isn't needed if you extend the widget either.