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    What is the benefit ?  Why should something be only allowed via M-x
    customize-variable but not via M-x set-variable (and vice-versa, BTW) ?

Maybe it would be ok to use customizability as the criterion
for user-variable-p.  However, I am not sure it would be an improvement
over the current way of handling things.