Without a bore scope we are all guessing. But observable results following a breakin procedure yields a barrel that won't foul as fast, and is easier to clean.
If you read Precision shooting [they got bore scopes] the first few inches in front of the chamber is hard to clean, and some guns also have problem area a few inches from the muzzle. How hard those areas are to clean depends alot on the velocity of the round, if your smoking them up toward max velocity carbon fouling in those area's usually build up fast. Barrel material also has some effect.
Also some debate has raged that moly just hides the copper underneath thus giving you a fake sense of a clean barrel.
For production barrels that are rough, breakin works, how to document what to do exactly is tough unless you can examine the barrel after every shot with just a little brushing to clean loose crud out.