Statecharts vs Petri Nets?

[Valentin Rychkov]

Hello,

I'm looking for a comparative study between petri nets and statecharts.

I know that from the mathematical point of veiw they are largely equivalent https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.0342.pdf but what interests me is more usability /model complexity vs system complexity/ verification

The context is the following: in our fileds petri nets are accepted as a modeling approach, thus people ask us "why statecharts"

Thank you in advance, Valentin.