[dustyleary]

It's not a question about difficulty, it's that nobody really gives a shit.

I'm sure everyone on this site knows that it would not be difficult at all to implement this.

Perhaps there is some valid legal concern over remembering minors' data, but if so, you can pretty easily come up with another dozen examples of sites elsewhere having similar issues with non-sensitive data.

The problem is that you usually have to have someone who is actually passionate about the product to drive all these little things home. Maybe this was a bug that was the next item on their backlog, but then someone in the chain of command said "it's good enough now, ship it.", and then everyone got moved on to the next thing.

Almost everyone at most companies, at all levels, is just doing a job. Very few people actually care about the product.

[abecedarius]

Was the patent technically nonobvious? The concerns in this seem to be saying it can be hard to overcome organizational and legacy friction instead, as far as I can tell.

I never heard of anything nonobvious at the time either.