Not only this function is useful if you are tired of using the lowerleft side of the page, but it is also great if you need to rotate your page..
I have a project in which I need to rotate the page 180 due to calibration problems.. With this function I could reset the origin and the rest of the PDF worked just fine..
I also think that this function primarly has been mode for situations like these...
This function can also be used as a calibration feature, though I dont do it myself, I can think that it will work very nice if your whole document is out of calibration for lets say 1 mm..