Yes, it's useless insurance. The interesting thing is that useless insurance is illegal to sell in lots of places† - to consumers, but here the insurance was sold to the root CAs which are huge corporations so they don't care that it's useless because they only bought it as a PR exercise.

†This is the root of a huge scandal in the UK that resulted in banks refunding people years of fees for a product called PPI which they should never have been sold. As a secondary effect this resulted in annoying spam from firms who'd help you claim your money back. By the end I almost felt sad I hadn't fallen for the original scam, because I was being inconvenienced by all the spam but (since I hadn't lost anything) not getting a pile of cash as a refund.