Should plugins-folder be protected?

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I note that your tool to write .htaccess-files doesn't write one to the plugins-folder, like it does to the datastore and uploads-folders. I was expecting it would write one to the plugins-folder too. 

Is there any particular reason this is not done? Should it be protected with the same rules as the datastore-folder? I'm not sure if the hooks.txt-file contains information that should not be read for instance. I see it's heavily obfuscated, but still wondering in case someone should be able to unobfuscate it for example