It's not because something is partially untrue or even globally misleading that it doesn't has a gist of useful information/reflection to be extractee by steelm

It's not because something is partially untrue or even globally misleading that it doesn't has a gist of useful information/reflection to be extractee by steelmanning. Even if the thought that got steelmanned was totally wrong and had no useful gist, it still enable an "exploration on the mental search space" which in itself can be useful by the exercise and the byproducts it can generate.