Agreed, raised this on GitHub and on here months ago. For some reason it’s viewed as breaking the API if they include the field - which it wouldn’t because we have to code for checking if the field is there and if it isn’t, assume it’s zero. If the field is there and is zero, we’d pick up the value - so no real chance of breaking the API really.
But what would I know, I’ve only been coding 40+ years, Z80 assembly on TRS-80 II, Commodore Pet, BBC Micro, Dragon 32, Sinclair QL using Forth, Mac Plus (which still runs but I can’t find my 20MB SCSI HD, somewhere I still have my Inside Macintosh docs) after that it seems to go down hill with Windows 3.1 and some upstart in Finland usurping my use of Minix on my Amstrad PC that then ran Novell Netware 386 with IBM DB2 as an add-on …
I tell Johan I’ve got the T Shirt’s - over the weekend I ended up wearing one I got from Apple 28 years ago, bit tattered but still viable. Not that I’m not getting old …