My personal guess is that they weren't sure they wanted to keep that feature, but it came for free-ish with their hardware providers. So they locked it out so t

My personal guess is that they weren't sure they wanted to keep that feature, but it came for free-ish with their hardware providers. So they locked it out so they could keep games forward-compatible with future devices. Obviously the homebrew crowd doesn't particularly care about that kind of thing :)