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Well, you're right, it's not so much about adding more lead-in for the sake of viewers having more time to read the lines. Afterall, 150 ms is just 4 frames. I add the lead-in in order to deal with that audio-visual sync problem FalseDawn mentioned in OP. That's the thing about the human brain, it doesn't interpret our senses the way math dictates subtitles. I'm just of an opinion that 50 ms is too little to compensate for that, and anything beyond 200 ms is pushing it. :p Of course, different rules apply when you have scene changes in the vicinity of start times.
If you guys want the viewer to have more time to read the lines, just make the lead-outs longer, link lines, and perhaps even ignore scene timing in some cases. I know people think I bleed from time to time because I leave some lines longer on purpose, but those are usually timers that don't know what "personal standard" means. :p
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