It’s not a solution, it’s a work-around. A solution would be fixing this issue. This allows working around the issue if you remember that it exists.

It’s like saying that it’s fine if an appliance might randomly burn your house, because there’s a button you can press to not burn your house.

I'm sure it'd be a patch of a few lines to make the type specification mandatory on the command line (I would certainly prefer that also), but it comes down to the opinion of the maintainer if that is wanted or not.