The thing with 'spacebar heating' (https://xkcd.com/1172/) is that sure, it wasn't designed to work that way, and it's kind of weird to rely on it to do that, but...

... apparently your users have a need that is not being met by your current software design, and maybe instead of complaining about how horrifying spacebar heating is, your time is better spent trying to understand how to make your software better for them?