ROWS FROM(): A Foolish (In)Consistency?

Folks,

As I was learning how best to add native weighted statistics, coming
soon, I noticed that our ROWS FROM() constructor takes only
set-returning functions, gluing the outputs together side by side
without a join condition of any kind. This is a handy capability,
which I don't find elsewhere in our code, modulo horrible things
involving WITH ORDINALITY and FULL JOIN.

Did I miss something?

If not, would it make sense to allow every set-returning construct
inside ROWS FROM(), rather than just some of them?

Cheers,
David.
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