As I said before, it is not a widespread minhag but it is a real one. And it sounds silly when you young ‘uns announce that it was started 15 to 20 years ago. Were any of you around back then to know?
I am NOT against following the minhag if thats your minhag. I am against the practice of “someone does it so even though I don’t think its anything relating to halacha I will do it.” The problem is that when you pass this on to your children, they might confuse halacha, minhag, chumra…
Its like the story of a young women who gets married. She is making a roast for her husband, who asks her why she cut off the end to save for a later date. She said “I don’t know, its because my mother always did it.” So she asks her mother who says “I don’t know, because MY mother always did it.” They go to the grandmother who says “I didn’t have a large enough pan to fit an entire roast.