It seems this is the issue in question: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9186 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9186 The maintainer did close they

It seems this is the issue in question: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9186 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9186 The maintainer did close they issue but they didn't lock the thread. If there was a very valid reason the request got shot down, it went unstated afaict. (Fair enough if they just don't allow feature requests on the issue tracker, I guess)