The red light on a camera also means it’s “recording”. Which is the reason the record-action in audio/video software is still a red circle to this day. This being about audio and video recording capability makes this another way to look at it, in a not complicated way.
What in trying to say is that what’s intuitive depends on your perspective. Most of all what you’ve encountered before that’s similar. It had nothing to do with overcomplicating anything.
Close (ish), but no.