The value is for displaying nicely formatted code in places that make it otherwise > impossible to display nicely styled code as text E.g. sharing snippets on

The value is for displaying nicely formatted code in places that make it otherwise > impossible to display nicely styled code as text E.g. sharing snippets on Twitter, on blogging platforms that don't properly support code, in preview images for social media... Kind of a niche problem, but one that gets disproportionate visible attention because the people who produce lots of content about coding are the ones that have the most need for it. (Similar like how many programmers blogs have a good chunk about content about how they implemented their blog ;))