None of these amenities are the reason recovery works. The real change happens in therapy, in group, and in the honest effort you put in every day. What these offerings do is make that effort possible to sustain. When you feel healthier, more connected, and more hopeful about what is ahead, you have more of yourself to put toward getting well, and you are far more likely to stay the course.
That is the whole idea behind them. A fuller, more supportive environment helps you stay long enough and stay engaged enough for treatment to take hold. Just as much, it gives you a real picture of the life waiting on the other side of addiction, a life with health, purpose, friendship, and things worth staying sober for.