It's not just theater, it can be the difference between someone finding an unlocked laptop that needs to refresh their access before doing more actions or just

It's not just theater, it can be the difference between someone finding an unlocked laptop that needs to refresh their access before doing more actions or just having 100% unfettered access. This is only one attack vector that gets safer by temporary tokens with short expiries, and for the dev under normal work conditions just means every few hours (or whatever TTL) you need to place your finger on your fingerprint reader for 1 second.