The purpose of that service is to recognize when new video outputs are being connected, and to call xrandr --output $yourNewVideoOutput --auto when that happens, i.e. to automatically enable the monitors that you connect. You would want to enable it again when manually configuring your display(s) is not sufficient for you.
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