Because they wanted to and Claude didn't tell them not to. Why even ask questions like this at this point.
I'd say the probability that some thought has gone into this project it pretty high. Your reply stating that this was created without any though or effort is, ironically the least thoughtful, laziest and least useful response possible.
Me personally, I’m writing tools for myself wouldn’t have bothered with before due the the time investment needed.
From Wikipedia: "Application software _runs_ [1] on top of the operating system"
[1] emphasis mine.