Every programmer is lazy sometimes. Obviously the author doesn't "prefer" this, it's probably just a resistance to implementing a macro which they think should

Every programmer is lazy sometimes. Obviously the author doesn't "prefer" this, it's probably just a resistance to implementing a macro which they think should be present in the standard library. If you only need to do this two or three times in your code, I can see how you wouldn't bother refactoring it, but would include it in a list of annoyances.