I wouldn't dismiss this so aggressively.
Frequently (more frequently than not), efuses are simply used as configuration fields checked by firmware. If that firmware can be modified, the value of the efuse can be ignored. It's substantially easier to implement a fused feature as a bit in a big bitfield of "chicken bits" in one-time programmable memory than to try to physically fuse off an entire power or clock domain, which would border on physically irreversible (this is done sometimes, but only where strictly necessary and not often).