activating Stella before use why?

I also find this rule funny, but now stellar is still cheap so it is ok and the money is still in our wallet. However in long term wise if stellar is able to achieve a higher price just from activating a stellar wallet already require a user to put it quite an amount of XLM coins. I does not know but this might be a good move by stellar since crypto users already take the hassle in putting XLM coins into the wallet they might be using it more often.