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Sure. That's a perfectly legit criticism. It's not, however, an excuse for the terrible way things have been done.

If you want to fix a problem, you fix the original cause. You do not come along at the very end and adjust the values to where you think they should be.

Gentoo users win then. They don't need to boot from USB, because their installer is tar. The ones that use a BINHOST don't even have to fiddle with compiling anything but the kernel unless they demand non-standard USE flags

If you want to look at it with 21st century eyes, sure. Things were VERY different back then though. What you would call prudent and common sense safety measures, they would have called something that you would think they should be fired for saying. And the boss would have sided with them.