They are useful, not least to debug issues with debugging
SIGSYS caused by overly restrictive settings in the unit file.
(See previous commit for an example.)
Go 1.19 uses it during startup.
From the Go changelog:
> On Unix operating systems, Go programs that import package os now
> automatically increase the open file limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE) to the
> maximum allowed value; that is, they change the soft limit to match the
> hard limit. This corrects artificially low limits set on some systems
> for compatibility with very old C programs using the select system call.
> Go programs are not helped by that limit, and instead even simple
> programs like gofmt often ran out of file descriptors on such systems
> when processing many files in parallel. One impact of this change is
> that Go programs that in turn execute very old C programs in child
> processes may run those programs with too high a limit. This can be
> corrected by setting the hard limit before invoking the Go program.
