[972811]

based on experience there could be a bunch of pretty innocuous reasons e.g. 1. some company wide simplification effort on user options 2. some weird coupling of the UI project to the backend project, where this functionality was an edge case that they could postpone til after launch

[gibolt]

"Postpone until after launch" === "Never build"

[progman32]

Perhaps not in this case, since it's now back.