Being 1st in some schemes is an advantage, but at the same time, being 2nd is an advantage in some ways/schemes as well.
A rule I would personally like to add, i've thought it for years never bothered to mention it:
Don't you just hate when you get 1st turn in a game, only for the player to immediately drop, then when you rehost they get the 1st turn instead and then no one drops or lags again...
I feel like, if you were randomly 1st, in the 1st game, you should get to be 1st in the rehost as well, I actually personally believe there are some players in the past & present who have dropped on purpose immediately because they didn't get 1st turn, funnily enough most of the players I suspect are Southern American players, I never seem to have this problem with other players, so this could just be down to me being a bit paranoid and a coincedence they may all innocently just have bad connections or something.