Sensory sensitivities and overloads - do you find any pros?

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Do you think they help shape your world or perspectives or are they just a nuisance to you?

Depends because I fluctuate.

Two extremes and in-between I've been;
It generally becomes all-pros with no dowsides when I happened to able to process and discern, multiple unfiltered and intense sensations at once in all directions, with the essential internal resource for a threshold and balanced state for processing definitely offers a lot of insight.
As opposed to unprocessed and unresolved into overwhelm, stress, confusion, pain, distractions, distortions, competing and sapping for mental resources and energy, all nuisance and inconvenience...

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I'm highly sensitive to bright light and sunshine, so I spend most of my time indoors with blackout curtains, candles and dim coloured lighting. It's allowed me to be much more relaxed and to have a mellow outlook on life, instead of rushing about in the fray of daytime.

My sensitivity to sudden loud noise has always been a problem for me, especially when I was younger. When I was a kid whenever I went to a house where there was a dog I would keep my fingers in my ears if I was in the same room as the dog because I was worried about it barking. But when I got to my 20s I seemed a bit more mellowed at the sound of dogs barking.
But there are other sudden loud noises that make me anxious as an adult, like bells and sirens.

I have some clothes sensitivities too, particularly with tags. They do become a problem, as some tags leave a scratchy bit even after cutting or ripping them out. Some tags are huge and I don't see why such large tags are necessary.

Both. If set on a specific task with no pressure I am able to observe and process sensory input often finding things that others have missed. But I still find my sensitivities to be mostly a nuisance. The strange looks that I get as I retreat to my truck for my earmuffs say it all.

Not to be a pessimist but in all honesty it's 1000% a nuisance. Makes it harder to get a job, be liked, be rich, or have anything nice whatsoever! So NO nothing's good about it and the best solution sadly is to pretend you don't have it.

It's a huge nuisance, doubly so for being inescapable.

On the other hand, having to deal with it all the time, I learn to cope or at least endure.

Contrast with a NT who hardly ever experiences overload, and when they finally do, they FREAK OUT because they have no idea of what's going on or how to cope.

Every cloud has a silver lining, but it can be hard to find.

I am fifty years old, and it has been my experience that the longer one copes and endures, the better one gets at coping and enduring.

Today things are still hard, but now I can laugh at nuisances which would have melted me down twenty years ago.

Keep working at it, and you will get stronger, and working at it will itself become second nature. It is very empowering.

Overload definitely has no pros.

Sensitivity makes me satisfied with very little—I don't have to constantly be going out or listening to radio/music/TV for stimulation. I don't have to rely much on other people and things for satisfying sensory experiences, and I don't have to spend time or money seeking those experiences. Simple things like staring at a pond are quite pleasurable. I don't have to worry about noise complaints from my neighbors.