I suspect it’s that meta/power-gamers dislike taking away a meta tool to Win the Game.

somewhere down the line someone implemented it for a good reason thats not immediately obvious or easy to explain.

Literally how the military (and government) works, in a nutshell.

I don’t even think that should be limited to horror; I think that should be boilerplate standard across all tables.

Nobody knows when they missed something important or they wouldn’t have missed it, by definition.