Seemingly redundant and/or confusing default mappings

[raf]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 12:24:45PM +1100, Joshua Rose via Mutt-users wrote:
> 
> Perhaps my question was phrased a bit poorly.  What I'm trying to get at
> with my question here is: "Why are the default bindings the way they
> are", rather than "How can I change my bindings."

An adequate answer to many questions like this is:

  It seemed like a good idea at the time.

But the answer doesn't matter. What matters is that it's a bad to idea
to change long-established defaults. To do so is to deliberately break
things for an unknown number of people who never felt the need to change
the defaults.

cheers,
raf