The point is to have a conversation rather than just a form. Engage the user to help you, rather than relying on analysis. You’re not just getting the user more involved (which is good in itself), you’re getting clean data that will simplify the work for your back-end systems. As a matter of practice, I’ve found that trying to solve a problem on the back end is 100-1,000 times more expensive than on the front end.
