Mash Hopping - Outside the bag?

I regularly add first wort hops. My question is, would there be any advantage/disadvantage of adding the FWH addition to the mash, outside the bag. I figure this would be just like FWH, with the added bonus of an extra 90mins steeping?

After a quick search online it seems that it is, for non-biab brewers, a very inefficient use of hops, with on a small hop effect. It was mentioned in a couple of places that it may lower mash Ph.

With BIAB, however, the hops would not be lost with the lautering, which does not apply to BIAB if the hops are put outside the bag, maybe in a hop sock to keep things tidy.

Has anyone done it? Is it pointless/beneficial/harmful? What do we think?

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