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If you consider liquor bottles, you will have to admit that the looks of the bottle must be a big part of the marketing and appeal. A lot of people in that business obviously consider it important that their bottles are distinctive.
And maybe it's at least a little bit that way for syrup, too. If you're asking people to pony up extra money for real maple syrup, maybe it makes sense to distinguish the bottle with extra cozy-homey-old-timey signifiers.
All that said, the brands of maple syrup I've been buying don't have a vestigial jug handles. Many of them don't.
Most of the maple syrup I see comes in 540ml cans. The bottles are almost always more expensive. Custom glass packaging in relatively small quantities is much more expensive than mass-produced standardized cans.
Are you living in Canada? Maybe no one has to bother to persuade you to pass up the Mrs. Butterworth.
Sacrilege!