wood auger for bushcraft?

Very practical.
Being able to easily drill a hole of consistent thickness is one of the wonders of the Industrial Age IMO.
Electric drills, brace and bit, scotch augers, hand drills, etc are awesome.

You can make awning poles easily when camping by cutting a straight tree branch off level at the desired height, drilling a hole in the end of it and putting a stick in the hole as a peg. Use these at the corners of a tarp for a shelter. Much quicker than carving it.

As you suggested using pegs when assembling chairs and frames from bush timber is much quicker and stronger. It still needs lashing but nowhere near as much because the pegs are what give the joints strength. not the lashings. Instead of lashing every joint, you can just lash the whole frame together. Another alternative is notching to hold the timbers in place but, again, this takes longer than drilling a hole and using a peg.

A lot of the modern augers bits have the drive end in a hexagon shape, not the 'diamond' shape of the older ones. I haven't tried it but a tap handle (the thread cutting tap, not a water tap) could probably be used as the T handle quite easily.

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wood auger for bushcraft?