but you have to go to war with the army you've got, not the army you want
so much of the way things are could be better if things weren't completely built around what they are, but no one has the time to sink an OS' worth of cost into things (and then get people to switch) even as a collective, so it's impossible to do more than incremental progress most of the time
it's not in there by default because configs that haven't been updated in 20 versions might break.
(the recent emacs development notes and decisions about defaults are incredible sometimes even though I understand a lot of why they need to be. I forgot which in particular this one was that I was reminded of, I think it was part of it being moved into C to make it faster to launch from a dead start but the fallback being the default)
