Avoiding DNSSEC is literally, in the literal sense of the word literally, the primary motivation for MTA-STS. The relationship to this thread is not vague.
(Source: the section of the RFC that says the primary motivation of MTA-STS is to ensure transport security when deployment of DNSSEC is undesirable or impractical.)
[0]: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-02-22-en
[1]: https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html
(Disclaimer: I work with 'tptacek but I agree with him because he's right not because I have to ;-))