I can forgive the '-b' creating a branch as a convenience. Having checkout perform safe operations by modifying HEAD when you pass a branch but destructive oper

I can forgive the '-b' creating a branch as a convenience. Having checkout perform safe operations by modifying HEAD when you pass a branch but destructive operations on the working tree when you pass a pathspec is too much. I appreciate your attempt to build a mental model for checkout, but I just don't find modifying HEAD and destructively overwriting working changes to be related operations.