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But that would spoil the symmetry!

No, seriously, that sort of thinking is baked into Apple's DNA. Jobs once tried to intervene in memory bus layout on aesthetic grounds.

"But look at the memory chips. That's ugly. The lines are too close together."

Surprised more haven't noticed how symmetry had become one of the guiding principles behind all Apple industrial design of recent years.

This ideology has damaged things that used to work fine like the keyboard arrow keys just for the hope of symmetry as visual harmony.