Any application might very reasonably choose to do this. Maybe version X never does, and you can satisfy yourself of this by peaking at the code, but there is n

Any application might very reasonably choose to do this. Maybe version X never does, and you can satisfy yourself of this by peaking at the code, but there is no reason to believe that X+1 won't, or that another vendor's product/FOSS project you need to interoperate with won't, etc.