IIUC, SHA-3 isn't actually better in any known way, it's just meant to be a vastly different algorithm so we'd have an alternative to the other ones.
SHA-3 is by far and away the most elegant modern cryptographic hash algorithm.
It will also be really nice on amd_64 CPUs for doing large amounts of hashing if they ever get a sha3 instruction.
That said, hashing is rarely your bottleneck so there's not much urgency.