Rooting a phone with TWRP recovery or any other recovery also requires USB drivers. And if you are a developer who uses Android Studio then again you need to have Google USB Driver on PC. If you are a person who likes to root their phone and install custom recoveries, custom ROMs then you definitely need the Google USB driver in the case of Pixel and Nexus devices.
One more important thing is that the Google USB driver also works for Nexus devices. So this will help a number of Pixel users who are in development and for other tasks. Earlier we shared Samsung USB Drivers and now that Google Pixel is a trending phone with stock UI which is a favorite UI for most users.
USB drivers are one of the utility tools that are required to connect or operate phones with computers.