I’ve heard either “the aughts” or just “the two thousands” although that one isn’t as clear.

You say your house is clean, yet nothing’s stopping me from dumping out this bucket of mud on your floor, curious!

My guess is they didn’t want to route the cable around all the VMU stuff internally, so they just had it come out the bottom instead. There was a little divot that you could clip the cable into that pointed it forward if it really bothered you, but it really made no difference either way.