Even a small amount of fuel can buy you time while the wood you picked up is drying. Building a nice fire with wet wood while it's 40 deg F and raining is not a fun time. Then again, if you happen to be in SOCAL, building a fire when it's tinder dry isn't necessarily a good idea either...
I am in total agreement , - not a fun time which is why I pack a decent stove in challenging conditions. If liquid fueled, and the stove malfunctions, you can employ "Boy Scout firestarter." A whole lot of us like to pare our gear down to critical essentials. Even with that in mind, redundancy in firestarters and tinder seems to be very common, and for good reason.
The flip side is the doofus who starts a fire when conditions are wrong. Some of our most recent worst fires were ignited in that manner.
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