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Yes/No prompt is case sensitive

This is not a huge issue, but when seeing a (Y/n) prompt, it may not be immediately obvious to the user that they must enter Y instead of y to confirm the action.

I was wondering if there was a best practice when it comes to these prompts, so I did some googling... and from what I can find there is not. However, what I have seen is that the most common approach to a prompt formatted like [Y/n] seems to be case-insensitive, and accept the capitalized option in the prompt as a default should the user just hit enter. This feels true in my experience as well, though I can't say that I normally think about yes/no prompts very often.

I think it would be a good (if trivial) QOL improvement to make the prompt case-insensitive. (I think it makes sense to not have a default response)