1: Both the top and the bottom of the Twiggy drive are nearly completely impassible. The bottom is a solid casting and a full-size circuit board covers the top. There's very little room for air to circulate through the drive mechanism, so if your theory is that the box is designed to chimney hot air from the motherboard to the front of the system *through the drive* it's not going to be very effective at that. Further, only a fool would intentionally design a computer to draw air through the floppy drive. I've been inside plenty of cases where that happens unintentionally and said machines inevitably suffer badly from having their floppy drives clogged with dust.Looking at the 5.25" Floppy slot as an additional convection cooling outlet, the box itself as an air dam and producing a chimney effect...
2: I'm confused by your "chimney effect past the AB" statement, since... how would that box do anything to facilitate that?
When asked a question about whether his cigars represented, according to his own theories, some sort of oral/sexual fixation Sigmund Freud is famously reputed to have replied: "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.". Sometimes a box is just a box. Drive needed shielding, drive got shielding.