It would open up options for the managers that hook in to the assets such as CSMM, ServerTools, Botman etc.
They could monitor for invalid items and remove them, remove casino coins from inventory as payment for command use, integrate it with events that require the player show up naked or no items. For twitch integration it would allow a direct drop item command for anything they have on them at the time.
Fubar has mentioned the ability to drop the item they are holding which will open up some potential at least. I believe bandits will be entity and once alive will have the same issue where we can not change any of their items and equipment.
I suppose an admin could abuse it too, yes. Seems like a strange thing to do unless needed as players wont stick around. We can remove items if they are offline, but not online. It takes a little trick so that they load with the changes but easily done.