In reply to mor10.

The people this change will affect the most (the average user) are not aware of this discussion and will not know of the new feature until they come across it in an update.

I'm not sure what your point here is. This statement is true of any piece of software. In fact, it's true of most things in life. Do you expect every one of the tens of millions of WordPress users to follow its development blog? Do you expect that every user of Drupal or Chrome or Firefox or Ubuntu or Nginx or Joomla knows about their upcoming features before they ship? Do you keep up with the development of every piece of software on your computer, server, smartphone, etc? What point are you trying to make?