by way of Don Kiely, an explanation from Aaron Stebner who was on the VS Setup team at the time the decision was made – if you are curious. I definitely was. I like Aaron’s comment on being asked this question so frequently:

of course, in the mails from internal devs I have to remove the expletives from the question also….. 

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