Often, something is (seemingly) bad because of a lack of time or other resource, because a boss or standard told them to make it bad, because there is some bigger issue being avoided, etc...
Especially when it comes to browsers, vendors are making trade-offs, and supporting a very rare case like this when URLs are often very sensitive security-wise seems like one I could understand being wary of. Does a user understand what devices they are connecting to in that situation?
It's probably intended as a joking remark, maybe even an "all people are stupid" thing poorly done, but even so, I think it perpetuates a bad way of thinking about flaws in software.