Certainly.
Those other pieces of use-of-force equipment—the baton, the handcuffs, just your fists or hands or feet—are all precursors, hopefully, to a firearms shoot/don't shoot situation. At times you go from nothing to a shoot situation, and nothing in between is even possible.
Through all that training, in doing those scenarios, you are faced with progressively different scenarios where potentially you can take control of someone with your hands and handcuff them and not have to draw another weapon, to ones where you may have to actually draw the baton and at least show it. That may deter further confrontation, and then you can take physical control with your hands. It then goes onward and upward to where perhaps even putting your hand on your firearm or drawing your firearm may be enough to cause the person to acquiesce right at that point, right up until you actually have to shoot.
Through all those scenarios you're faced with all those different situations and are monitored to see whether you overreact or react accordingly to the degree of aggression you are facing. Perhaps just taking cover and getting the car between you and the suspect is enough, and you don't have to do any more than talk.
In all those scenarios that you go through, you're watched and scored very carefully so that you're acting appropriately, right up until the shoot/don't shoot situations where you may even be faced with multiple targets—some armed, some not armed—and where you actually have to take action against specific targets and not others. For example, there's a hostage-taker diagram type of target, where you have to shoot the hostage-taker and not the hostage, or a target will pop up and it will be a kid holding a camera or somebody with a shopping bag, and the next one will be somebody with a shotgun. You get that over and over again, so you really have to assess the appropriate level of force, never using more than what is reasonably necessary and acting accordingly.