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Changing selections is not a good time to launch a dialog box.

To ensure that the proper sign extension happens.

Reading the fine print.

It's a purely mechanical adapter that relies on smarts in the mouse itself.

Surveying the options and looking for commonalities.

It had one job.

A simplified execution environment means fewer things that you can stumble over.

If it didn't go through the input system, it only looks like input as much as the app allows itself to be fooled.

Avoiding an interim GUI environment.

So what did you expect?