Empathy apply button does not make sense

Binary package hint: empathy

All Empathy's configuration dialogue boxes use "close" to save the settings, as is found throughout the GNOME desktop.

*** Apart from one ***

I see someone has realised most people will close the box to apply and put in a message:

"There are unsaved modifications regarding your xxx account.

You are about to close the window, which will discard
your changes. Are you sure you want to proceed?"

"Cancel or Discard ?!"

What does this even mean ? Cancel the procedure of closing or discard the procedure of closing ?

Then you have the accounts management dialogue, which is very cluttered with buttons and has an apply, cancel and close button.

It breaks all the user's previous understanding of using GNOME, it's unnecessarily confusing and I don't understand why it is needed.