[falcolas]

How is that destructive?

Visual editors assign various non-editing tasks to command sequences as well. Pycharm moves the cursor around parenthesis with C-m for example, Cmd-M minimizes windows, and Cmd-I does formatting.

[omtose]

I don't understand what you mean. It's destructive in the sense that the raw input is not even being passed to the application in the terminal.

No applications running in the terminal will be able to tell the difference between these two different key presses.