That’s crazy. I mean, what if someone already has a normally-wired 6-50 receptacle in their lab, and when they plug in the 120V unit, it just goes up in smoke...
(That’s why the old “life hack” of using regular NEMA 1-15 plugs for loudspeakers was, and is, a terrible idea: next thing you know, someone has plugged a speaker directly into 120V AC...)