@Kusalananda people not familiar with the system might actually think that they want to "limit X to only Y", not knowing that they most likely don't want it.
(nor realize that running chmod XXX -R / has some slight implications)
Weird; I'm seeing a bunch of posts in the close-review queue that have been "flagged" as off-topic, problem went away (not a close vote) -- where there's absolutely no evidence anywhere that the problem has gone away.
Oh! I misunderstood your initial description and thought that you could not see it, and I was ready to blame it on another stackexchange quirk. Glad to hear you have more information now!