Is Cardio Important (Beyond Just Fat Loss)

I am a big proponent of hard cardio. You know, I'm a former runner. Like, I don't think it's useless. And I see some people online where they say that strength training is analogous to um to something that has long-term gains. And cardio is something that has no long-term gains, right? They they go through all these an analogies, but basically that's what they're getting at with these analogies that strength training has long-term gains uh and cardio doesn't. And they are correct in the fact of calorie burn, which is what they're talking about, but they don't mention that they're specifically talking about calorie