There are old games which tied system state directly to computational power. A buddy recently tried to boot up some childhood relic (Descent 1?) and said pressing forward made you move at light speed and immediately crash into a wall. So, there is software with implicit maximums.
This is why dosbox sets the virtual cpu clock.
It was quite common on Linux before docker
Not exactly the problem docker solves…
Very common in old software.
Welcome to the brave new world where modern OSes only get worse