Also, to add to James' excellent post; you can do yourself even bigger favours with midi that might be painstaking or impossible with a recording of a real piano - you can use velocity to bring out some notes over others. Selective emphasising of notes can be great for reinforcing the function of the chords in relation to the melody.
This is the kind of leg work mixers do with backing vocals - riding parts to get the best harmonic balance for the song.
The rhythm is the most important bit to get right with velocity first though.
I use humanisation a lot, but only tiny amounts once I've programmed the part. Simply to add pretty much unnoticeable variation throughout a part so that it doesn't sound like it's looped.
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