Maybe when it comes to weak encounters (like NCR army which is laughably easy considering it spawns shitloads of best armors ingame). The golden egg argument is used against strong ones (enclave and similiar).
The point is it is safest and fastest way to get valuable loot.
When I farm Unity or NCR Army, I go with other people.
When I farm Enclave or BOS, I go by myself.
To anyone paying attention, this should make it obvious that encounter scaling has absolutely zero to do with farming the more difficult encounters. I don't fight Enclave/BOS when I farm them, I never have. Since we can't loot their armor, we don't care if we kill them or not - as long as we can get that weapon from them the mission is accomplished.
Anyone who actually plays this game knows for a fact the easiest way to farm Enclave is with a thief and a bomber, not a PvP or farming alt. In the context of this thread, and as it applies to Enclave,
using a radio to distress with the sole intent of reducing encounter scaling is irrelevant.
This has all been covered, you just don't understand it, because apparently you haven't seen it with your own eyes. To see it, you have to play the damn game.