A backlink profile can tell you a lot more information
Suggesting backlinks is only useful for understanding the content and does not take into account the rest of the information they communicate. A backlink profile can tell you a lot more information about a website. Such as the extent to which others trust it. Who trusts it. And how authoritative the site is in its particular niche. Is google able to determine all of that just from the content of the page? Mueller doesn't talk about the authority...
