I agree, but with the following caveat. Sometimes hot takes inspire reflexive reactions from the crowd, reactions that aren't coming from a place of deeply well thought out reasons.
So if you get a mob of people all reacting the same way to something, who, upon examination, have arrived at their conclusion for a smattering of contradictory and inconsistent reasons, it can be a helpful point of information for diagnosing the irrational mob response.
Granted it's not always the case, people get to similar beliefs through different reasons.
But these are two phenomena that exist side by side and there are times when it's necessary and helpful to be able to diagnose the first.
