Yes, that's precisely why, Noblehead. The three day rule appears to be there to provide a more cautious, considered calculation of basal dose.
I don't think it's fair to say experienced diabetics wouldn't make day-to-day changes to basal dosing. If you need to, as I do (and I'm pretty experienced now), then it's absolutely necessary to do so. The alternative is to knowingly expose myself to avoidable hypos and highs. Why would I, as an experienced T1 do this? If a diabetic doesn't experience day-to-day changes in basal requirements, then there is absolutely no reason to make daily changes. In which case, they'd be less well placed to calculate basal doses, so probably should follow the three day rule.
Regarding, Levemir, it's got a shorter exposure duration than Lantus, injecting it twice a day would mean that you can calculate the correct dose within a shorter time frame.
Finally, I don't have much confidence that HCPs are any good at calculating insulin doses. Getting insulin doses right is by far the most fundamental part of controlling T1. If HCPs could calculate - and instruct us - how to dose insulin correctly, then 93% of T1s wouldn't be missing efficacy targets. If they knew how to do this, I'd expect the opposite - 7% to be missing efficacy targets.