Because they said so:
> As part of that we sometimes adopt schemes that were previously used by only one of the distributions and push it to a level where it's the default of systemd, trying to gently push everybody towards the same set of basic configuration [1]
> it is definitely our intention to gently push the distributions in the same direction so that they stop supporting deviating solutions for these things where there's really no point at all in doing so. [1]
> Distros may deviate from this by patching this downstream, but by shipping this as secure default I do hope to gently push everybody in the same direction.
> start pushing people gently to define GPT partition type UUIDs for missing archs > Let's generate a single gcc `#warning` message asking people to define partition type UUIDs for their architectures if they are missing. [3]
[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-Se...
[2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-Ma...
[3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d42e4fa258701ff5e0...
Also, like it or not, the word "tainted" bears a negative connotation. It's hard to imagine that it was chosen arbitrarily.