/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Okay, I've asked this before, but didn't get a response.

/ck/, is it normal for a cook to leave the tails on shrimp when cooking them for pasta, as in pic? It seems completely counter-intuitive and just makes the eater have to pull the tails off.

Am I missing something? Whenever I put shrimp in pasta, I always remove the tails. Is there some secret I'm missing?

Forgive my first-time gripes, but I have to ask...

What kind of sadistic person leaves the tails on shrimp when putting them in pasta?

Is there some culinary benefit I'm unaware of? I cook pasta with shrimp de-tailed, and on the rare occasion I ask if people want the tails left on, I get looks like I just suggested their kids play Russian roulette with a semi-auto.

It's a minor thing, but the senselessness of it leads me to ask the aficionados. Is there any point to it?

Pic related- tail-on shrimp pasta.