The reason why case class companion objects implement FunctionN is that before, case classes generated a class and a factory method, not a companion object. When we added extractors to Scala it made more sense to turn the factory method into a full companion object with apply and unapply methods. But then, since the factory method did conform to FunctionN, the companion object needed to conform, too.
[Edit] That said, it would make sense to have companion objects show as their own name, not as “function”