Thanks a lot for the detailed explanations, much appreciated!
So essentially it's no bug - just a rather uncommon choice of keywords. I still don't agree with that choice since it can be abused to somewhat hide code in pull requests to less experienced maintainers, but oh well... there's probably enough fun to be had with unicode et al already. And I guess the more modern tastes are relatively recent in the history of bash.
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