Backspace/parent folder unintuitive behavior

I find navigation in Kodi very awkward, and certainly unintuitive, particularly around the behavior of the back button (Backspace).

Consider this behavior:

1. Open a plugin directly using ActivateWindow(Programs,”plugin://plugin.program.myplugin/abc”, return)
2. Press backspace
3. Instead of exiting the plugin, Kodi will navigate to plugin://plugin.program.myplugin.
4. What?!?!?

Is there a way to disable or somehow work around this behavior?