you can also flip these keyboard shortcuts around, which I did for the cmd-shift-4, as I almost always want it to the clipboard without persisting as a file
Berlin is also super unevenly populated and includes several forests. If you compare the density of the actually populated areas, like Mitte, you are still under Manhattan, sure, but only by a factor of 4 - which is extra impressive given the near complete lack of tall buildings in Berlin. Neukölln (which borders the area in question) is even more dense - about half as much as Manhattan [1].
Its unfair to compare Manhattan which apart from Central Park is nearly 100% urban to Berlin, which is significantly larger and includes many areas with widely distanced houses and forests.
Not defending/attacking the phrase "disastrously bad", but I'm not sure its a fair argument to say "the docs explain it", if the behavior isn't what a "reasonable" person would expect. Writing software that deletes your files (when you expect, say, the weather report) isn't excused if they write in the docs "oh this weather software randomly deletes files for no reason".
In this specific case though, even those docs do not explain what happens if the value is "invalid"!