It’s for people who suffer from severe anxiety when they see stuff like: -> or * for example. /j

Reminds me of the Epicurean Paradox:

Remember that time, when it was possible for about 6 years to hack into any Linux system (without drive encryption) which had GRUB by pressing backspace exactly 28 times? Yeah, good old times.

https://www.hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html