In response to my article about what would cause a directly connected route to be overridden, Matt Love (@showflogi) made a good observation:

Good stuff - LPM rule can be a useful tool if you want to manipulate paths without mucking with metrics, esp if using multiple protocols

— Matt Love (@thatmattlove) July 13, 2017

What Matt is saying is that longest prefix match (LPM) is a mechanism that can be used to steer traffic around the network in order to meet a technical or business need. This type of traffic steering is called traffic engineering (TE).