What is the point of tractor beams and tractor beam bonuses?

Dropping MTU in null and low can be dangerous as it can be combat probed.

Tractor beams predate the absurdly cheap, low volume & op mtu & other deployables. They can be used in abysal to date to speed up farming.

Basically tractors belong to a less brain dead era of eve. Tractors were always broken in the sense they could not tractor yellow wrecks.