Hypothetical statements, by their very nature, can be used to make conjectures about, well, a hypothetical state. Unless the place where you want to go is nowhere, ie, you are where you want to be, then you don't need them. If you want to effect any change, however, you need hypothetical statemente.

First, to give yourself a final, ideal goal.

Second, to devise a way to arrive there.

Third, to try to predict any hardship on the way.

Only the status quo has no use for hypotheticals - although you are completely right that hypotheticals alone, without a backup thinking that sustains them, do nothing either, as far as action is concerned.