I feel like dark mode is a sign that people care. I think it's a user feature that is easy to do, but not done often. Mostly done by people who care. It brings so much polish to the experience.
It's not necessarily _that_ easy to do, especially depending on how your CSS was implemented (eg; do you use variables for all your colors, and do they have a sane, consistent, reversible brightness scale?)
However, I certainly agree with your "you do this because you _care_" sentiment.
Source: implemented dark mode for an application where the "sane css colors using variables" property was true.