> If you point it out, and you're right, will you be heard if you don't have a flashy metric to point to, like a billion dollars lost?

Is this a subtle nod to the billion dollar mistake?

Because they deliberately included the billion dollar mistake as part of the language.

Even if they knew better than to include the billion dollar mistake, they were probably aware that they couldn't make a popular language without including it.

Because most users demand it.