Why is needing to behave differently when you pipe annoying? Are you saying it doesn't work? But also FWIW I don't think piping command help output is a common use case.
It's useful if your terminal emulator isn't very good and the scrollback buffer doesn't work. This can happen for any number of reasons.
Or maybe I don't feel like using the mouse, or I want to do something like grep it. There are an unlimited number of reasons I might want that, that's how interfaces like these work.
