Someone trained/learned/schooled in this stuff might know that. But for a curious hacker getting at the internals of how something works, the first instinct is to turn it up. That's their learning path. It's natural curiosity. More must be better. Louder must be better.

The point is to stop scaremongering about letting people turn up the TX. It's just a damn WiFi radio. They aren't going to be blocking their neighbor from listening to their favorite ClearChannel session of commercials. At most their neighbor might get a bit of interference. But if you're running on the same channel as your neighbor, you're already asking for trouble. Nobody's going to emergency, nobody's going to jail. We're not talking about firing up an 100kW flame thrower of a radio signal here. Let's just everyone keep their knickers on and realize the context of what we're discussing