Read receipts have allowed me to better tailor conversations to fit different people's needs based on what I see them respond quickly to and what they take time to respond with (or not at all) with other subjects of conversation. It also provides adequate closer to not receiving a response since you'll know whether or not they actually opened it. Or they could have seen that I texted them and swiped it away at haste while proceeding to never talk to me again. Wait this isn't therapy?