A voice memo too big to email
You walked the dog and recorded a thirty-minute brainstorm to your phone. Back home, you try to email the M4A to a colleague and Gmail rejects it — the file is 47 MB and the limit is 25. You don't want to set up a Drive share for a single voice note, and you definitely don't want to lose the recording to a 'send via cloud' workflow you'll forget to clean up later.
You drop the file onto the page. The original sits at 47 MB; the Standard preset shows the projected output at around 13 MB. You hit Compress & download. Eight seconds later the MP3 is in your downloads folder, you attach it to the email, and it goes through on the first try. Your colleague gets the brainstorm before lunch.
The recording is the same story it was. It's just smaller now.