It's very clearly a choice and not a bug But what I could imagine is that it fell out of product oversight and an engineer just came along and said "well that'

It's very clearly a choice and not a bug But what I could imagine is that it fell out of product oversight and an engineer just came along and said "well that's a really complicated piece of code, I don't want to maintain that, I'll replace it with something simple", and nobody pushed back because this isn't a high-priority feature any more