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There's no way they actually checked that it works. It includes code for:
Verifying this would mean logging into several different desktop environments.
It's also extremely fragile code, running external commands and filtering through various files. There just is no good API on Linux for querying whether the desktop environment is using a dark theme, so it's doing absolutely inane shit that no sane developer would type out.
Because it's a maintenance nightmare. Because they almost certainly don't actually need to solve this. That's software development 101, to not write code that you don't actually need. But apparently some devs never got the memo that this is because of the maintenance cost, not because you weren't able to generate the code up until now.