Why is this option/action offered to the user at all?

seems useles and dangerous

>From gpg man page:
     --export-secret-keys                                                       
                                           

     --export-secret-subkeys
              Same  as  --export,  but  exports the secret keys instead.  This 
is normally not very useful and a security
              risk.  The second form of the command has the special property to 
render the secret part of the primary key
              useless;  this  is a GNU extension to OpenPGP and other 
implementations can not be expected to successfully
              import such a key.  See the option --simple-sk-checksum if you 
want to import such an exported key with  an
              older OpenPGP implementation.

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Seahorse doesn't warn the user when a private key is exported
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269403
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