It probably wouldn't have made sense twenty years ago (or 60 years ago, when IBM engineers first wrote about the Principle of Least Astonishment [1] in 1966).

But it does make sense today.

I'd argue that modern computers do many astonishing and complicated and confusing things - for example, they synchronize with cloud storage through complex on-demand mechanisms that present a file as being on the users' computer, but only actually download it when it's opened by the user - and they attempt to do so as a transparent abstraction of a real file on the disk. But if ripgrep tried to traverse your corporate Google Drive or Dropbox or Onedrive, users might be "astonished" when that abstraction breaks down and a minor rg query takes an hour and 800 GB of bandwidth.

It used to be that one polymath engineer could have a decent understanding of the whole pyramid of complexity, from semiconductors through spinlocks on to SQL servers. Now that goal is unachievable for most, and tools ought to be sophisticated enough to help the user with corner cases and gotchas that make their task more difficult than they expected it to be.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...