Why does xscribble work so hard?

Why does xscribble work so hard to synthesize the "right" keys? Why
not just generate a Shift-L when the user strokes up? Then when they
stroke the next keystroke, throw it into the hopper, and if it's a
letter, let the X server shift it up? Instead, internally, xscribble
figures out whether it's a letter, gets the KeySym for it, notices if
it's a shifted KeySym, then generates a shift, then the unshifted
keysym. Ick, ick, ick. So I must be missing something, then. What?

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