A good low light optic you’ll see more thru the optic than you can with your naked eyes. Scopes like the S&B mentioned above are designed specifically for night hunting in parts of europe where that is legal. In the US, if you are sitting waiting for a deer to come by, it can add a valuable couple minutes when you are most likely to see game moving. So yes, there is a legit use case for it.
That said, I agree that for 30min before/after, even in dark woods I have not had a problem with my 28mm objective—in part because its not seeing the deer thats the bottleneck for me, its seeing the brush in between me and the deer. Hunting past the time when you can see with a naked eye is fine in the open or very open woods, its quite another thing and ime not really as viable as it sounds if its really thick. Just gotta pick your priorities based on how and where you hunt. For me that last 3 minutes that my 42mm S&B gives me over my 1-6 is really 99% on paper only, its just not as important as other qualities given where and how I hunt. Diff story for other folks obviously.