No excuses

They up your straight in percentage maybe.
Not only that, they are one of the most effective/simple ways of getting feedback for your technique. Missing a cut shot can be due to a faulty aim and you won't necessarily know which reason caused the miss (aim or technique). Your feedback from straight shot misses are much more effective when working on improving your technique; less noise in data = more accuracy in results.

Put another way: If you miss 1/10 of straight in shots for a given distance, you will also miss 1/10 of cut shots for that same distance due to the same technique deficit. Then let's say you miss another 1/10 of those cut shots from aiming issues. How will you know for sure which misses are from aiming, and which are from your technique? The simple answer is you don't, and the best way to improve your aiming is by fixing the technique deficit, and only after that getting rid of the last 1/10 of misses caused by aiming issues.
 
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