If I had never seen this happen before, maybe I would think it's not intentional. However, it has happened multiple times before, and each time someone acted surprised, someone from the Dev team came up and confirmed that it was intentional.
You've been in on these discussions before, Tom. This was a behavior that was so well established that it was considered obvious on at least one continent. Until your present comments, there's been no indication that that it shouldn't have been allowed, even when raised by the Dev Team.
Are you sure that you aren't mining the past for this opinion? There was a time, years and years ago, when capitals couldn't secede. I can't remember what change ushered in the current behavior, but it was discussed at the time. Hence the confusion. If it's going to be deemed illegal, then it needs to be coded.
