Well... not you, or me. Unfortunately, I can find a dozen UX designers and project managers who do, in fact, want these things, and advocate and whip developers

Well... not you, or me. Unfortunately, I can find a dozen UX designers and project managers who do, in fact, want these things, and advocate and whip developers to add these things under the pretense of "cohesion" and "brand intuition" and other such terms that lead to someone (not me) being promoted.