Funny. I was incidentally reading Snowden leaks recently, published by a German media. As is known, NSA put PGP in the category “catastrophic,” often responding to requests with “no decrypt available,”
But, interestingly, it said members of intelligence agency themselves are using PGP to secure their communication!
Anyways, this is not PGP vs non-PGP debate. Rather, whether you manage your key or let a company manage the key for you. At that point, it doesn’t matter much if you use OpenSSL, PGP, etc to encrypt your data.
And PGP offers a secure and convenient way to encrypt your information on your computer from command line.