Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Please change t- to behave like t when diacritics are autoremoved./reply (18)

Yup, exactly. (A lot of people prefer it because it's more terse, or because they find its structure and semantics more intuitive, or more compatible (technically or philosophically) with languages they prefer, such as JavaScript/Perl/Python/PHP/Ruby. But of course this is all subjective.)