Decent question. No reason other than a veteran's badge in the black art of shoving square pegs into round holes. I was guessing the extra beef required to run Terminal may have been the straw that broke the camel's back (straw being memory, camel's back being the ... ach you get the idea). Less beef used to retain the shell itself.

If I wanted debug (which I did at one point) then I redirect STDERR to a handle.

It may all be to pot anyway because, as per vi_'s post, I'm not actually seeing any I/O activity (this is KP49 ; KP48 definitely did "stuff").

If I can find my E90, or the spare ZTE Blade so I've still got comms, I'll chuck my SIM in there so I can play with the N900 later and see WTF is going on.