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A good review article is worth its weight in gold for both the researchers who write it and the research community.

Remember that research communities are extremely transient because of the professor : phd student : practitioner ratio and the low odds that a graduated phd student a) stays in research and then b) stays in the same research area for their whole career. Therefore, most members of a given research community have approximately 1-3 years of experience in the broader academic field and approximately no experience in the area covered by the review. Therefore, a good review can simultaneously:

1. prevent a lot of wheel re-invention, and

2. push the research field in a certain direction (either accidentally or purposefully).

Also, good review articles typically include some amount of synthesis. I.e., the creation of a conceptual framework and language for understanding and talking about a bunch of vaguely related stuff. This article tries to do that e.g. in Section 2.1 but the topic of the review is so incredibly broad that the categories are not super useful.