Octane additives?

Wasnt that octane in a bottle originally for no hardened valve seats? kind of like a lead additive?
There are so many different brands of the stuff. The additive that "MotorMedic", "Gunk", and others sell as "Lead Substitute" supposedly contains ingredients to protect the valve seats, but I have never seen a definitive test that says the stuff actually works. It is not an octane booster. Anyways, how many of us still have non-hardened valve seats in our engines?