Which side would you rather have and why

white but it would depend if the position is closed or open

Well white is up a lot in material so 

And it's easier to checkmate with rooks than bishops and knights

white since up material. 

Depends on the types of game. If it's closed, black. Open, white. I'll explain why later.

Black. It seems hard for white to open up things and black can can coordinate their pieces nicely.

whoooooooooooosh

I would rather play as black for sure. Just because any trades piece for piece are bad for white.. it's painful trying take some advantage when you can't exchange anything and anytime is your piece attacked you need to move. Maybe if it would be there clean chessboard those rooks could be dangerous but not like this at all.

For anyone interested, the eval here is +0.6-0.8

white, cuz the rooks can still be developed with moves like h4 a4 etc

black because most people are saying white

meh.. I wouldn't much believe engine in this...

Engines over all have problems with evaluating the exchange.. If i know right, in the last moments when chess masters were still able to win against engines they did it by sacrifising the exchange for some kind of position adventage what the engine couldn't evaluate correctly...

white white white white

black with the power of the night