why surrender?

Currently, surrendering is a terrible option the player will almost never want to do, even if they are not save-scumming. In real life, surrendering could potentially have benefits compared to fighting to the death, but in Bannerlord it has no benefit. It may as well not even exist as an option...

So...I went to engage an army. Got the pop up to attack them and clicked it...only I did it quickly and missed. I hit the surrender button instead. I outnumbered the enemy, my troops were more powerful. It would have been an easy victory. However, I immediately surrendered. There was no...