These types of Topologies will orchestrate behavior in regular Topologies.
For example, a FailoverTopology is a Higher Order, it will orchestrate its capabilities between a primary and a replica topology. A great use case for this is a database deployment. The FailoverTopology will deploy both instances, connect them, and the able to execute the appropriate actions to promote de replica to primary and revert back to original state.
Other use cases are ShardedTopology, DecentralizedTopology, etc.