You missed the general point. The discussion is about unknown domains. If I was looking for vacuum reviews, I wouldn't type vacuumreviews.com but rather search

You missed the general point. The discussion is about unknown domains. If I was looking for vacuum reviews, I wouldn't type vacuumreviews.com but rather search for vacuum reviews. If was was looking for football scores, I wouldn't type footballscores.com but rather search for football scores. The former used to be a common way to browse before the advent of search engines. That's not to say that there is no SEO value for footballscores.com; there is.