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Two main reasons.
The obvious one is that with ultimogeniture you get longer reigns, since your heir is younger when you die. Since a lot of the game is re-consolidating after succession, this helps a lot.
But the more interesting and admittedly gamey angle is that with primogeniture you're more or less stuck with your first child as your heir, which is quite the roll of the dice, whereas with ultimogeniture you can just keep having kids until you get a good one, then stop. So not only is your next ruler going to have a long reign but he's also going to be a strong attractive genius. Or something in that direction, at least.
Main downside is that if you die early or keep having kids well into old age, he'll have to deal with a regent and, possibly, jealous older brothers, but in practice this isn't too hard to manage and is well worth the hassle.
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