change directory selects non-folders

Why does the linux command cd select non folders when doing tab completion? Say I have environment.rb and a folder titled environments. If I did cd and did env tab, I would get ‘environment’, because it doesn’t know how to go from there. It needs to go, “hey, that’s not a directory! I won’t complete to that!” because I know app completion doesn’t do that bs, if you do ./appname (but incomplete) and hit tab, and it’s not +x, it will not open it. I know directories work in a similar way, there is a directory flag, so why is this not done with cd?

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