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This is not that bad, soystemd utils like sudo have even less verbosity than this.It would have been trivial for the guy who wrote this code to instead print 'Operation aborted- you typed '$input' not 'YES'.
Besides, I assume that this message is printed whenever you press a control sequence like CTRL+D/CTRL+C and it's a generic abort error.
Speaking of verbosity, you might actually like Gentoo or Slackware. I recall some post that outlined how Debian or other distros throw a verbose and uninformative "Fuck you" message that you lack permissions, whileas Slackware succintly tells you that you "must be superuser".
Gentoo on the other hand doesn't cancel the package installation command if you lack permissions to do so; Instead – it prompts you whether you'd like to see the changes that would take effect if you went ahead with the installation.