Given the potential catastrophic failure that can come from a sudden loss of all your oil (I've had this happen in a fiat many years ago), this does seem strange from a design perspective but a predictable response from BMW. Would be interesting to hear there have been many incidents across models.
Coincidently, this popped up in my ig feed today, reminded me of this thread, maybe the same designers/engineers have been around for a while!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtqwHUgKKw2/