alt Hacker NewsYou are saying as if there was an apology or it should be needed for some reason.
For any spec there are people who want something spec doesn't do and people writing the spec need to say no to requests that they consider not in scope as much or more often than they say yes
There was literally an apology, a douchebag backhanded false one, but still acknowledged explicitly that there was a thing he knew everyone would want, and knew it would "make some people sad".
Comments are not some weird thing one person wants for their weird reason that no one else needs to care about. It's like leaving out a letter from the alphabet.