This for the case where you think you type it locally but are actually typing it remotely. But I’d personally never type this locally so this use case is not convincing at all for me.
This!
Another use case:
I use it on nixos-rebuild to update the system, when I don't want to rebuild from tiny hosts but rather from a powerfull machine and then send binaries,because it would take to much time to compile otherwise.
I have a laptop that just runs a bare ubuntu terminal, no DE, and I've accidentally shut down a home server before when I tried to shut down the laptop. Quite annoying, since I was away from home at the time
Many laptops have terrible power usage during sleep, so if you just close the laptop and throw it in your bag, you'll open it tomorow with 30% less battery