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My least-worst guess is that it was originally just the header with the conditional button, and then someone said, "That empty header without the button looks pretty stupid. You should hide it," so the programmer wrapped the header in the same condition, on the "smallest change possible" theory.
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It did add breakage to the syntax highlighting, so that's something.
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My guess is that at some point someone was copy pasting things and did not bother to think too much.