There's a technical reason to use something with no technical reason precisely because it's engineering. Your job is to make a circuit board that works, a trace

There's a technical reason to use something with no technical reason precisely because it's engineering. Your job is to make a circuit board that works, a trace that has the right impedance, etc. so doing the dumb thing reduces your risk of not doing that. More of a principle than a practical issue in this case, of course.