They are escaped twice, tibbles with many such columns may have columns removed without apparent reason.
print(tibble::tibble("mean(x)" = 5, "var(x)" = 3), width = 28)
#> # A tibble: 1 x 2
#> `mean(x)`
#> <dbl>
#> 1 5
#> # ... with 1 more
#> # variables:
#> # `var(x)` <dbl>
They are escaped twice, tibbles with many such columns may have columns removed without apparent reason.