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The difference is developers are a lot more likely to have tested one than the other. So it's what you call a binary compatibility issue.

Similarly browser developers care deeply if they break a website with the default settings, but they care less if cmd-+ breaks it because that's optional. If it became a mandatory accessibility feature somehow, now they have a problem.



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