> Does your logic apply to the other projections that take a globe and have hard coded limits or is this a peculiarity of the TransverseMercator?

I have tried to apply that logic, yes, though I suspect that some have slipped through the net in the interest of keeping some momentum with particularly iterative PRs...

Ok, in the interest of keeping this particular PR moving, lets keep the variable globe option, and we can deal with any cases which do not fall into this particular case.