I agree, but realize that it might have been too late to make into this patch at the time Woodweaver said a fix was made.
I don't know anything about patch work, no pun intended, but I'm sure there is some sort of early cutoff so that the patch can be bug tested, stability tested, etc... since the last thing you ever want is a patch that creates issues.
But as old as this issue is I definitely share your frustrations...