What's the benefit of that escape in the reflect package

// reflect/value.go

func ValueOf(i interface{}) Value {
    if i == nil {
        return Value{}
    }

    // TODO: Maybe allow contents of a Value to live on the stack.
    // For now we make the contents always escape to the heap. It
    // makes life easier in a few places (see chanrecv/mapassign
    // comment below).
    escapes(i)

The code above is the source code of Value.go in golang, and the comment above the escapes(i) shows that each time we call the ValueOf function, the i will escape to the heap, that's why? Namely, how to explain the It makes life easier in a few places?