IIRC It was added because too many people had been hacking together such a feature in their configurations, more often than not compromising their security. They added the option to reduce the amount of damage such a stupid much-asked-for feature deals.
P.S.: Honestly, I have used the feature before. While it’s usually funny, it can be brutal from time to time.
The “autodetect subfolder” option handles both scenarios fine. This is actually what makes it useful! If I remember correctly, when there’s a single file or folder inside, it just extracts, otherwise it makes a folder with the same name as the archive without the extension.
I was looking for a similar comment. Plasma does exactly that too. These are probably provided from this line in its .desktop file:
Keywords=Slideshow;Slides;OpenDocument Presentation;Microsoft PowerPoint;Microsoft Works;OpenOffice Impress;odp;ppt;pptx;
Reminded me of this: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/issues/595
Same concept, different granularity!