Shouldn't use innerText anyway (nonstandard, worse performance, tries to parse the HTML and gives you unexpected behavior if e.g. a style is set that makes an element invisible but still has text inside, doesn't work on all DOM nodes...)

I can see how it's a way of allowing some tags like bold and italic without needing a library or some custom parser, but I didn't understand what the point of this default could be and so why it exists (a sibling comment proposed a plausible answer: hardening on top of another solution)

> Yes, because that's the default configuration, if you don't want that, stop using the default configuration?

"don't use it if it's not what you want" is perhaps the silliest possible answer to the question "what's the use-case for this"