This is similar to current nails versus cut nails. Round nails help for sheer force, but after a while are easy to pull out. Cut nails are shaped different and work much better. I built two blanket chests using cut nails to hold it together, glue only to make a panel wide enough. Five years later it still is doing great, even with 5+ kids using it as a toy box. Screws would have worked themselves out by now.

Also built a workbench with pegged tenons, guess it weighs 100+ lbs, and if you bump it with enough force the whole things moves, but the tenons are still not loose.