Why would you leave the second + intact, when the ^ prevents it from matching 2 or more times? And what if you want to match the substring in "Faaaaabulous"?

Why would you leave the second + intact, when the ^ prevents it from matching 2 or more times? And what if you want to match the substring in "Faaaaabulous"? Did you see the even simpler fix in TFA that doesn't break mid-string matches?