I've been pondering your point for a while. The problem, I think, comes down to this -- more people use lots of different applications on one platform, than th

I've been pondering your point for a while. The problem, I think, comes down to this -- more people use lots of different applications on one platform, than the same application on multiple platforms. If you're going to use one application only, on multiple platforms, then I could see how a consistency in the way that application behaved would be useful. But I can't see how anyone's workflow wouldn't involve interacting with some number of other applications on each of those platforms. At that point you could assert all applications on all platforms behave consistently. This is not likely to be a well-received suggestion. Or you could try to make all applications on a particular platform behave consistently. The latter seems to align with people's UI expectations, and, for the most part, is what we have out there now. The pain point is where expected behaviour from one platform bleeds into applications running on different platform where that behaviour might best be described as 'surprising'.