Originally Posted by
Rolla
Wow. Out of thin air, you've somehow identified Sram's "most likely" reasoning, and presented it as though they actually thought it and said it. You have amazing powers of conjecture.
I think he basically got it right.
They chose not to include something that some people might want that would pose zero downside and (for all practical purposes) no extra expense.
Really, the only explanation that makes a lick of sense to me is that they thought the cool kids would make fun of them.