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What is the purpose of that mechanism?
In Bohnanza you are forced to plant the front card in your hand at the start of your turn, so you need to be smart about getting cards out of your hand before your turn if you want to control what cards you plant.
The game is all about scouting out top talent for your circus (inserting cards into your hand) versus showing off their complicated acts, whose strength is the card count of your valid played sets (which is dependent on your hand order). It's awesome!!!
People play out acts of 1-5 cards and can keep besting each other with stronger sets. If you can't beat, you buy one of the current act's performers on the spot from their circus owner and add it to your hand where it could hopefully give you a stronger set. It's wild that you take the performer mid-act, because the ongoing performance weakens live with that card/performer now being absent, and can now get bested by another player's act!