So there's a funny thing about mouthing the words, the way the human mind works the easiest way to explain to ourselves why we're mouthing the words is that we agree with them. And so in that sense what seems like a useless paper exercise can be effective.
Also, relevantly here, nobody actually wants these terrible bugs. This is not A or B, Red or Blue, this is very much Cake or Death and like, there just aren't any people queueing up for Death, there are people who don't particularly want Cake but that's not the same thing at all.