So if you wanted to change the storage from Drive later, rclone (and everything you have set up to depend on it) could still be made to work.
rclone goes beyond a fuse mount, providing a set of fault tolerant tools equivalent to rsync, cp, ls etc.. with some resilience to recover from the transient disruptions inherent with cloud storage. If scripting, or syncing significant file sets is your thing that might be relevant.