Yes, I suspect that the original goal was to make it something that would be very difficult to do accidentally.
It just had the side benefit of making many future OS related operations difficult to do intentionally.
Huzzah.
One day the Pointy-haired Boss in Dilbert hired a monkey to do coding.
Dilbert and the rest complained that the monkey had an unfair advantage; he could use his tail.
Yeah said the boss, you ought to see him do Ctl-Alt-Del!