Cisco Catalyst Stack

Whats the point in building a stack of which the most visible "advantage" people say is the unified management point, when some commands simply dont work on the "other halve":

2960Sflexstack#sh platform port-asic stats drop gigabitEthernet 1/0/1
%Command Rejected: interface 'GigabitEthernet1/0/1' is not local port