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So I presume there's some elegant reason for why they would make this choice. And I'm prepared to be amazed by its logic.
I think @CoachCClement is on the right track and am reminded of "Hyrum's Law" from the new Flamingo Book: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."
