Anecdote from yesterday. Me staring at merge-pathnames and wondering why everything was backwards from the physical layout of the paths. Ah, it is because the d

Anecdote from yesterday. Me staring at merge-pathnames and wondering why everything was backwards from the physical layout of the paths. Ah, it is because the default is optional because of the direction in which the function is usually used. If I didn't take the 5 minutes to wonder about what I was missing I would have implemented a macro to do it the way I thought was most sensible. In the context of the op, I can only imagine that the impulse to pause and reflect on the question of why, or what motivates the desired for a new option has fallen victim to the fact that there are thousands of people for whom the flag solves a real and tangible problem immediately.