[i_am_toaster]

I’m curious if this is an answer that others would agree with. I could see your reasoning being valid on this, but I tend to see others responding that it has much more broad utility than that.

Typically when something is confusing to me and I see nothing to grasp onto, it usually means something is flawed or poorly communicated. In other words, when no one can explain why something has utility (in everyday programming) and there are a fair number of responses, then the chance of bad communication goes down and bad reasonings (non-answers) goes up. I have a feeling it is not coincidence that you have the opinion it is not utilitarian in everyday programming and that I responded to your initial post.