On any car that employs some form of dynamic charging and "learned" battery condition, failure to reset this can result in both shortened battery life on the replacement unit as well as shortened alternator life.
Given the fact that some of these cars have alternators that cost over $1000 (not kidding... and that is just the price of the part!) I'd say it is wise to at least make sure you are doing everything properly.
I had an Audi A4 in here yesterday that some hacks not only put the wrong battery in it (put in a 70Ah unit when they removed a 110Ah unit), they didn't bother to reset anything. The result was the "new" battery was unable to hold a charge after 7 months AND about a half dozen modules had low voltage DTCs and/or DTCs that could have been linked to low system voltage as well as some strange door lock behavior as well as some strange transmission shift mapping. New OEM battery installed, battery regulation reset, DTCs cleared, and everything is working perfectly. The owner had no idea, and truthfully they shouldn't need to. The shop should have known better. This is why so many of these VAG products have such lousy consumer opinions, because of nonsense like this. Problem is, as everyone in the car industry knows, the stuff the Germans do spills down to everyone else as the years progress. Which is why the industry as a whole is really troubled. Because EVERYTHING nowadays has some complex management and control systems, and there are a bunch of my peers sadly stuck in the carburetor days.