Question: why Maple likes to write exp(2*a) as (exp(a))^2 ?

This is just cosmotics, but it looks ugly for me. For some reason Maple converts exp(2*a) to (exp(a))^2 under certain operations such as expand

expr:=exp(2*a);
expand(%);
simplify(%);
expand(%)

.

This happens in worksheet under typesetting level extends or standard.

Any specific reason why Maple likes to rewrite exp(2*a) as (exp(a))^2  and is there a way to tell it not to do that?

ps. it is little more than cosmotic actually, it affects the Latex generated

 

latex(expr)
{\mathrm e}^{2 a}


latex(expand(expr))
\left({\mathrm e}^{a}\right)^{2}

 

Maple 2024 on windows 10

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