I could see this if you left sections unstickered and then put the laptop through the ringer. That’s a little bit like what mine is going through. I have a number of stickers on my top case, probably ~60% coverage at this point, and through use there are some scratches on the unstickered part that the stickered bits aren’t going to have.
That being said though, I’m an OG 11th-gen, so once I fill up my current top case with stickers I’ll upgrade to the CNC case and hang the old one as an art piece like @ari mentioned above.
I never plan on reselling the laptop. The point of my framework is that I will never need another laptop (except maybe a FW16), so it follows that I’ll never get rid of this one, through resell or otherwise.
I also had sticky notes in the little open sections next to my trackpad for a couple months as a kind of notepad, so if you want to be technical you could put stickers as palmrests and change the way the laptop feels to use. The (relative) softness of the paper was kind of nice on my palms, but they just got greasy, so it wasn’t actually viable.