I genuinely don't understand why the solution this layer-boundary BS is not to just default the layer boundary to the image boundary, or the contents of the lay

I genuinely don't understand why the solution this layer-boundary BS is not to just default the layer boundary to the image boundary, or the contents of the layer, whichever is larger, always, done and done. What am I missing? I don't care if it's "efficient," we're talking about environments which have orders of magnitude more resources and efficient disk caches and god knows what else. It's nearly 2025.