I guess my point is that instead of making a special mode that is only useful for a minority of users, it would have been really nice to get a feature that everybody should be thinking about and using.
In other words: there's no "instead" here, any more than there's an "instead" between e.g. UI work and backend server work. Different people, different competencies, concurrent capacity.
Regardless, I was just lamenting that we don't (yet) have a feature that should be table stakes at this point.