The erf might be more widely used and more general than the CDF of the Gaussian, but most students have a more intuitive sense of the Gaussian CDF ... so Mathematica's insistence on simplifying everything to erf is not only annoying, but also very confusing. $\endgroup$ – More @Wikipedia
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