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You can see how those who approach Buddhism from a faith perspective, as opposed to wisdom through practice, can be drawn to such suttas and subsequently resort to taking the "easier" approach without doing much, if any, meditation practice. Then, for some, when their approach is challenged they might fall back on the view that they have many lives to develop spiritually, so what's the rush. But due to the uncertainty of even the next moment, this kind of complacency could, especially over the course of many years, end up leading to the accumulation of defilement, not merit; and of course, as already mentioned, either way this is a path of letting go, not acquiring.