I'm more surprised that there's not a way to message the owner (or whomever has Find My registered for the airpods) without revealing their full information, but I guess that's a bridge too far, and they figure that Find My is good enough.

This is also someone who loses stuff...

How was their iCloud account all kinds of messed up?

Didn’t remember their password, may have been logged in with their mom’s account, etc.