I forgot who it was that said that "yard" trees can be damaging to your saw. these were in the tree i cut down a couple days ago
Yard trees and trees on property lines always make me cringe. This was in the Spruce i felled today. Fell a sugar maple spar Saturday that had a wire fence attached to it. I made the stump about 4' high. Luckily i didnt hit any metal in either of them! Nice when you can see it ahead of time for sure.
Peugeot, peugoting the French out of it. Apparently they do this a lot. Also Aston Martin do this with the tachometers too.
I'm thinking aesthetics and because they can. With virtual gauges you can probably have whatever kind of gauge you want. Dunno if they are there yet with configurability.