[chubot]

This is basically the parable of "Grandma's Ham"

https://www.executiveforum.com/cutting-off-the-ends-of-the-h...

tl;dr nobody in 2 generations knows why they cut the ends off the ham before cooking it, until they talked to grandma, who said her pan was too small

A Unix thing that's been posted to HN for a decade, that's almost literally the same story:

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952

tl;dr /usr/bin is separate from /bin because someone had a small hard disk once

[ahartmetz]

So Grandma's Ham is a variant of Chesterton's Fence... When you do or don't do something for reasons of tradition, find the real reasons for doing / not doing it.