eg when editing an LTI instance you always see that you are editing an 'LTI' despite possible creating a 'Library resource' when you chose it in the activity picker. eg in a plugin we are writing mod_cms, we want to be able to show what template the user is editing instead of the hard coded 'CMS':

https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/master/course/modedit.php#L125-L133