For me, there are two main reasons to use pedal effects for an acoustic;
one is to add something specific for a particular song or songs, ambiance and depth, say, or simply having a tonal change from other songs, without having to change guitars constantly. Just adds flavor, as long as you remember it's an acoustic and not a Strat, and that the overall sound should probably remain an acoustic guitar. Otherwise, use a Strat.
But the main (and second) reason, for me, anyway, is simply to compensate for the pickups' inability to don't fully translate the sound of the guitar. So, to compensate for whatever limits the pickup(s) might have in sounding full and warm like the actual guitar, sometimes compression, reverb, or just EQ is needed.
That said, I mostly plug and play with adjustments already available on my installed preamp. Of course, that is, essentially, an effect, just as much as using a pedal doing similar things.
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