Let me give you my perspective and the reason I turn them on.
It builds accountability. I want to be a timely replier of texts, but sometimes I fail. Even worse, sometimes I open it and forget to reply at all. This forces me to leave them unread until I’m ready to address them. I know the sender will see that I have read them, so it incentivizes me to manage my texting better.
It’s interesting how critical you are of OP posting content but you’ve never posted anything. Be the change you wanna see and start churning out some high quality postings.