sudo (at least everywhere I've used it) - is typically used to (A) allow me to run code as root without having to type my password, and (B) give select groups of people the rights to run a few specific commands. In terms of number-of-time executed, in a recent environment that I was in, in which approximately 100 or so people had sudo rights, 90+% of the time it was to allow people in various group to run commands like "tcpdump" or "netstat", without giving them full root rights to the system.