You jest, but honestly I think this does make sense. It seems rather obvious to me in hindsight that the character on screen should match the key pressed, and to get a different character should require an activator such as shift or caps lock.
One of those, “If I wasn’t already used to it being the way it is, would I find doing it this way to be better?”
30 DAYS TO GET MY DATA! So I put in a data requet last week with reddit and it said it would take a few days. Yesterday I inquired to its status as I had not received anything and they repsonded that it might take 30 days. Im not sure if this is bs to keep their account numbers up or they are just innundated with requests.