It's some sort of industry standard, though, isn't it? Google Chrome on Android auto-deletes the history database silently if it deems it corrupted (e.g., due to a bad write on a system with low storage). You just open your browser one day and it's all gone.
If not, I wonder how Google justifies it.
Google is the epitome of design that doesn't care at all about the user and user experience.
If Google does something in X way, you can almost always be certain that X way is the wrong way to do that.
Google is abysmal. In every sense of the word and in every product they touch.