In short: no, there's no use for that.
What you describe is not a characteristic unique to ropes (or tools). Some objects in Tibia have the multiuse flag, which we usually recognized by the "Use with..." option in the context menu. This includes runes, potions, tools and many, many other objects. There are, however, two types of "Use with ..." interactions.
Some objects can be used from distance, for example fishing rods and runes. You don't have to be standing right next to the water tile you want to fish in, otherwise it wouldn't work very well. So, when you use these objects, the action is performed (or you attempt to) from distance.
Other objects, however, can only be used on tiles near you. This is the case for ropes, as well as potions. When you attempt to use an object like these from distance, what actually happens is that your character first tries to move close to the tile you clicked on, and then do the object interaction.
So when you describe "pull you towards that item/NPC/wall/player", what is happening is simply that you're first moving to close range, and then trying to use the rope. If you do the same thing with a potion, you'll have the same result (of course, if the target is a player then you'll successfully use the potion).
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