https://www.dictionary.com/browse/straight
just in case you weren’t sure what straight means.
I didn’t say the slots weren’t needed. did I?
I said I don’t or rarely use them.
and yes it’s pretty blatantly obvious to me why there’s slots and holes. I suppose your a ‘plumber’ who went to plumbing school and knows everything there is to know about plumbing so nobody else who isn’t a plumber or hasn’t been to plumbing school and spends all their time exclusively chasing money around in their self important plumbers head and in their little plumbing van that says i’m god the plumber on it isn’t allowed to mention or think or do anything remotely connected to plumbing.