It isn't always about 'admiring your character'.
As a BRD I always stay max zoom. Easier to see everything happening around you and to dodge stuff. But as a melee, I normally have to zoom in quite a bit because of all the skills/spells going off on the mob it makes it tougher to see which direction its facing so I can optimize DPS. This probably wouldn't be a problem if horrible tanks would stop moving the mob all over the place, but that's a different discussion.