It's a weird default. The file is literally a elisp code with .el like almost everything else.
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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No—it’s not. These days we think we need code for everything. Emacs is from times when people didn’t default to that assumption. Someone may have loaded a theme thinking it will just load some style sheet and not run code. Then—be surprised that loading a “theme” meant running code.