Puzzles like this are to make more people interested in formal logic. The "gateway drug" of formal logic.
Just like the barber paradox isn't literally Russell's paradox, but it made more people to look up the history of it and perhaps learned what Russell's paradox is. Hopefully 0.1% of them turn out to be mathematicians.
Why not hopefully more? Less? Is mathematics this inaccessible to the other 99.9%?