It's a design decision and depends on the maker's philosophy. It's not absurd to have it either one way or the other. Is the user assumed to be an idealized emp

It's a design decision and depends on the maker's philosophy. It's not absurd to have it either one way or the other. Is the user assumed to be an idealized empowered rational adult who knows what they want, or more like a toddler babbling around who has no idea what they want and can just approximately gesture in the direction? Or where exactly inbetween. Again, depends on the philosophy.