My memory is definitely rusty on this, but you can easily construct cases where the VHDL delta cycle model creates problems where it doesn’t for Verilog.

I remember inserting clock signal assignments in VHDL to get a balanced delta cycle clock tree. In Verilog, that all simply gets flattened.

I can describe the VHDL delta cycle model pretty well, and I can’t for Verilog, yet the Verilog model has given me less issues in practice

As for elegance: I can’t stand the verboseness of VHDL anymore. :-)

Reassigning clocks to another signal name will quickly get you into trouble in ways the just don’t happen on real hardware.