There is 100% a reason for this. Because it takes days, if not weeks, to build out a feature like this. And even the most autopilot zero shits given county worker will realize something is “off”. And, more importantly, realize that someone is likely to see it before they finish and insist they do it again.
I don’t buy the “in the way of the footpath” since that seems to be where a lot of paths converge.