Most of benefit is in the new workflows you get via backlinks.
You told them to try it. They did, and wrote up feedback. Your reply, after you told them to do it, is dismissive.
A good deal of the feedback remains applicable even if you’re ‘sold’ on the benefit.
There's also ongoing experimental work toward making the parser's backlinks support more usable.[2]
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Backlinks
[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AdvancedBacklinks
You told them to try it. They did, and wrote up feedback. Your reply, after you told them to do it, is dismissive.
A good deal of the feedback remains applicable even if you’re ‘sold’ on the benefit.