I think possibly because it's 'fiddling around the edges'. Sure, it's nice to have a way to reverse a string, but you don't do that very often in practice - ass

I think possibly because it's 'fiddling around the edges'. Sure, it's nice to have a way to reverse a string, but you don't do that very often in practice - assigning to lists, calling functions, etc. are all far more common. But yeah, I hear you on the downvoting.