I thought the laser "ignition" was just a demonstrator for being able to create circumstances where fusion occurs, not something that could ever be scaled up to

I thought the laser "ignition" was just a demonstrator for being able to create circumstances where fusion occurs, not something that could ever be scaled up to a power plant? But this article talks about repetition rates? Would we theoretically have fusion powerplants where we ignite a plasma over and over again from scratch, using lasers? I thought that's what tokamaks and stellerators were for: keeping the fusion reaction going once ignited?