The mushroom learned to ride a Gundam with the determination of revenging humans for the damage we have done to mother earth. Trust me bro I'm the scientists.
I feel like it's just useful for different use cases. You don't need to start with making a map of all trees everytime but it certainly would be handy if someone else had compiled a map of all / most trees for reference.
I like how optimistic you are but I don't reasonably see why else would a mega corp pull a half-assed measure