it's worth noting that this has only been in the codebase for ~4 years, so not a *lot* of time compared to the rest, but like. xd
pesterchum has some built-in logic to handle the possibility of users running the program directly from the .zip file, but i don't believe it's ever worked since we still get a lot of complaints about "app brokey" caused by exactly that
which means this gaffe was never caught :p