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Agreed! Unfortunately these maddening behaviors were kind of set in stone several decades ago, and it has been (correctly) decided "Don't break the web", these weird quirks are kept in modern interpreters/compilers.
It's actually quite interesting to read through the logic to follow when implementing an interpreter:
https://262.ecma-international.org/13.0/#sec-object.prototype.tostring