It can be a useful way to check if you know a tune in a session before committing yourself to picking up the bow.

Of course, it is also a recognised technique in various genres of music. Known as pizzicato in classical circles.

However, there is a time and place for this whether it be for certain passages in a piece or song. Even a whole song or tune, in some circumstances but I wouldn't like to see it become the norm.
It won't, of course.