I'm not really sure in wich way toi think maknaes get the advantage. It's true that the rest of the group usually takes care of the maknae plus because, well, s/he's the youngest. And as such, the maknae's the most unexperienced one (I'm not talking about artistic experience but life experience). It's pretty clear that older people can help toi better because they've been trought the same thing before. I don't really know if that answered your question (probably not, sorry for that :D)