Mostly I find it's used as a stand-in for "What do you want, precisely?", a question that is both clear and honest. How many times have we been on the receiving

Mostly I find it's used as a stand-in for "What do you want, precisely?", a question that is both clear and honest. How many times have we been on the receiving end of a long-winded exposition, full of qualifications, and maybes, and ifs, and still end up confused about what the interlocutor wants. At that point, where we might use "What's your point?", it might be better just to simply ask them "What do you want to happen?" and go from there. If nothing is to happen, then there really isn't a point. If something is to happen, well we can talk about it.