Yes, you're right, it is redundant. And also possibly a confusing variable name, since it's really a different variable than the line above.

The only reason I did it like that was so it was easy to add additional custom lines inside that block to configure the cell. In my (limited) experience, I almost always added a couple more lines to configure the cell inside that block, and I thought that already having a variable to manipulate was more intuitive.

I'm definitely willing to change it. Let me know what you'd like me to do.