It will never cease to amaze to me that Apple (under Jef Raskin who also wrote about this in The Humane Interface) observed and fixed problems with interactions like this in SYSTEM 6 in like 1993 or something - only for the same problem to have to be re-descovered and re-fixed decades later.
Chesterton's Fence.
Why on earth do we need this thing here?
Oh, that's why.
Raskin left Apple in 1982.
Because every single application rebuilds their own operating system