@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe ah yes, let's be smartasses and call 3 completely different operation, none of which behave like a multiplication, multiplications, and then keep reminding everyone to be careful cause these things don't behave like your usual multiplication, oh no they don't. Got to love mathematicians.

Component-wise multiplication of arrays makes as much sense as any other component-wise operation. For vectors it can be used for disproportionate scaling or masking. An equivalent matrix transform would be wasteful, especially in higher dimensions... unless by some miracle it's internally optimized to component-wise multiplication of course.