Look, forget about threat models. It's relatively trivial these days to avoid fingerprinting attacks if you want to (as a private, web browsing individual).

I use fingerprinting actively in enterprise apps as a form of silent 3FA. It's a useful backstop. If I have a user who forgot their password but retrieves it via email, I'll usually let them pass if their fingerprint matches one of their priors; otherwise my software shoots off an email to their immediate superior to make that manager validate that the machine the employee is using is one they can vouch for.

I've always viewed browser fingerprinting as something that can be leveraged as a security feature. It's far more useful for that than for some sort of distributed tracking. I'd never want to live in a world (ahem ... China) where submitting to such fingerprinting actively was mandatory, or politically punishable if you didn't. No society should be run like an employer/employee organization with that sort of lack of trust. No sane free person would allow their own browser to transmit a fingerprint. But for employer/employee systems management? It's a great tool in the box.