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First and foremost, convenient (no 'playing' with flash and reset buttons) . And in principle there is nothing revealing here. Webupdate already worked on the older brother ESP8266.
On the radio, the button only switches to AP mode after the first boot to enter WiFi credentials. After restart, this page is displayed on the local IP of the network the radio is running on. Any changes to the firmware can be uploaded this way. Once uploaded, the ESP reboots itself.