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I think something gets lost when we call this kind of shortcoming a missing feature... A missing feature is too easy to dismiss since we can mention all these scary words like "paralytic featur-itis." The fix here involves no new dialogs, no additional learning curve, nothing fancy whatsoever. It's just a case of absent-minded application design, and the point stands that it makes a tremendous difference in the end product.


Another possibility is that the developers implemented it and the UI designers/tech writers insisted that it be eliminated because it would "confuse the users".


It sounds like somebody could complain equally about it working the other way. I don't think this guy's opinion is really a valid metric here.




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