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Even outside of scripting and so forth, which I use a lot, often it's far easier and faster to just cook up a wildcard string or a regex or whatever when you're faced with a folder with eleventy bazillion files in it, only some of which you'd like to move somewhere else.
Yes, you could point-and-click on all of those for the next hour and a half plucking them all out of your file browser window. Me personally, I'd really rather not.
Other similar use cases abound.