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However, it's difficult for me to find any resources as to *why* reducing current flow, or dividing voltages, is useful in the first place. The Wikipedia source came up google searching "Why are resistors useful?" Which only served to explain what they did, but not explain why what they're doing is beneficial. This may be a very basic and trivial question, but I genuinely don't know.