I suppose part of the rationale is "the underlying OCaml compiler itself only knows about signed Int32 (and now Int64)", so it's easy to handle subtypes like UInt16, but more work to handle not-quite-a-subtype like UInt64, and nobody's paying us for that extra work.
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