Joe, I see you are trying to approach this from a very rational POV. Please understand that much like how the Federal government spends billions and trillions every year pursuing policies all over the planet which have absolutely no bearing on the actual needs or wishes nor betterment of those whom pay the taxation nor was ever revealed as their intention when running for election, I highly doubt that those calling the shots here design this forum or amend it according to what the members here need, want or desire most, except trivially, whenever it can be rather easily effected without causing deviation from the larger corporate plan.
This forum is pretty good overall, maybe one of the best of its type, its free, and for the most part, pretty well managed as well. But don't expect everything here to be logical as well, make sense, much less be designed around and fully responsive to the best possible user experience.