Non-existent node author user IDs are silently converted to 0 (?) (without validation errors)

I can recreate the issue in 11.x.

drush ev "\Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node')->create(['title' => 'test', 'type' => 'article', 'uid' => 12345])->save();"

SELECT * FROM node_field_data;
+-----+-----+---------+----------+--------+-----+-------+------------+------------+---------+--------+------------------+-------------------------------+
| nid | vid | type    | langcode | status | uid | title | created    | changed    | promote | sticky | default_langcode | revision_translation_affected |
+-----+-----+---------+----------+--------+-----+-------+------------+------------+---------+--------+------------------+-------------------------------+
|   2 |   2 | article | en       |      1 |   0 | test  | 1719579473 | 1719579473 |       1 |      0 |                1 |                             1 |
+-----+-----+---------+----------+--------+-----+-------+------------+------------+---------+--------+------------------+-------------------------------+

Since we have focused in on the handling of setting a uid which doesn't correspond to a user on Node, I thought I would see how the same scenario is handled for comments.

drush ev "\Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('comment')->create(['entity_id' => 2, 'entity_type' => 'node', 'field_name' => 'comment', 'comment_type' => 'comment', 'uid' => 12345, 'comment_body' => ['value' => 'This is the comment body', 'format' => 'basic_html']])->save();"

The result of this is to store the uid is given:

SELECT * FROM comment_field_data;
+-----+--------------+----------+--------+-------+------+-----------+---------+------+------+----------+----------+------------+------------+--------+-------------+------------+------------------+
| cid | comment_type | langcode | status | uid   | pid  | entity_id | subject | name | mail | homepage | hostname | created    | changed    | thread | entity_type | field_name | default_langcode |
+-----+--------------+----------+--------+-------+------+-----------+---------+------+------+----------+----------+------------+------------+--------+-------------+------------+------------------+
|   1 | comment      | en       |      0 | 12345 | NULL |         2 | NULL    | NULL | NULL | NULL     | NULL     | 1719581477 | 1719581477 | 01/    | node        | comment    |                1 |
+-----+--------------+----------+--------+-------+------+-----------+---------+------+------+----------+----------+------------+------------+--------+-------------+------------+------------------+

It seems there is a desire to not allow the storing of nodes if a specified uid does not match a stored user. See #9. But, if this is expensive perhaps it is better to just allow the storing of the uid as provided. This could be achieved by removing the following:

From \Drupal\node\Entity\Node::presave()

// If no owner has been set explicitly, make the anonymous user the owner.
      if (!$translation->getOwner()) {
        $translation->setOwnerId(0);
      }

Is there any appetite to just remove this code and not throw an exception at all?