[coldtea]

>I guess I don't necessarily hate it, it's more of a neutral thing, but who is deciding these strange things??

Probably nobody, just some artifact of the overlay APIs used default behavior that they didn't bother to streamline.

[StilesCrisis]

In this case, the behavior is so weird and easy to trigger that I'm sure someone has filed a radar by now. So somebody has at least written a post-hoc justification?