Why not SSH as root of the Service Console?

This might be a simple or stupid question, but what is the reason for practices not connect not not with SSH as root to ESX?

Is - this for lack of logging between directors or for the risk of making a crucial mistake, while being root? Or other things?

If the "possibility of messing things up unintentionally" does not count I can't imagine anything else for the moment.

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