Could be because as of yet the meat of terminal, the tty, happens in the kernel. And the kernel devs, as last as Torvalds remain in charge, is not as magpie abo

Could be because as of yet the meat of terminal, the tty, happens in the kernel. And the kernel devs, as last as Torvalds remain in charge, is not as magpie about chasing the latest shinies. Note however that there exist effort towards moving the tty into user space. And one leading figure in that is currently involved with systemd. So i suspect it will happen, it is just a question of when...