Annoyingly, in 2000-4, I was trying to get people to understand this and failing constantly because "it makes more sense if everything is the same - less to learn!" Hilariously*, I also got the blame when things broke even though none of them were my choice or design.
(Hell, even in 2020, I hit a similar issue with a single line Ruby CLI - lots of "everything else uses Python, why is it not Python?" moaning. Because the Python was a lot faffier and less readable!)
edit: to fix the formatting