It's a difference of approach. Consider the difference between
building a robot and carving a statue out of marble.
One constructs the pieces until it works.
The other takes away what isn't part of the statue until what's
left is the statue.
I like the apophatic approach because I could take EVERYTHING
that I believed was "not God" and take it away. "Ok, this isn't
God. That's not God. The other thing isn't God".
Then what's left when I've stripped everything away?