> If any one of those developers had _needed_ the feature, I bet it'd have been implemented in no time at all. The ticket the blog author refers to was opened

> If any one of those developers had _needed_ the feature, I bet it'd have been implemented in no time at all. The ticket the blog author refers to was opened by someone @google.com. There are at least 5 different additional @google.com addresses chiming in in favor of such a feature. Even when developers want something, they don't always get it on the schedule they desire.