I think it's useful as a counter to Postel's law.

Postel's law (or robustness principle) states that you should be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you output. Hyrum's law shows the danger in being liberal in what you accept.

(Shameless plug: I've just made public an open source CLI flashcard app where the example deck includes a set of Hacker Laws including the aforementioned ones, you can try it here: https://github.com/SteveRidout/flashdown)