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For something end-user facing: I could understand this argument.
In this case they were more or less just calling a C function that had an unsigned long long as the parameter they were setting negative.
The whole 'bug' was that the other side of the function call was seeing a positive number no matter what.
The real situation was a bit more complicated, but that's the gist.