Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
... I have to wonder, he is a youngish designer, if he even realizes that typewriters did not have ligatures or if he just automatically had ligatures enabled as a default setting. ...
Certain OpenType features are suppose to be enabled as a default per the OT Specification, standard ligatures being one such feature.

So, the question to me would be: Did the designer make a conscious choice to leave the feature turned on?