Even if I spend too long in the bathroom it will go to sleep with the maximum lock time settings, and my amazing Mac crashes if it has external monitors plugged-in when it goes to sleep.
I'm also not at all surprised that people are tech illiterate to the point that they don't know how to change basic settings. My girlfriend sure as hell wouldn't for example.
Well, I did not expect that, but I found an actual explanation that really makes sense.
(For your own Mac, there's https://www.caffeine-app.net/ available though)
They are really not restrictive overall, especially for software engineer's computers, but I would still have imagined that a tool which allows us to bypass some restriction specifically put in place would be blocked.
I guess since that security can be defeated by a long YouTube video they didn't see the point.
I didn't know caffeinate was a thing though, that's good to know.