sholsman
I have been a programmer since the mid to late 1970s. There are limitations that are not merely in the minds of the programmers.
There were reasons the feature was not included. What is worse? Omitting a feature, or including it but having it be unreliable? I would be a lot more aggravated being given a feature that doesn't work very well than having it left out entirely, but maybe you don't feel the same way.
I am not a regular Spartan Camera employee, but I am on the camera test team.
I have tried to offer some workarounds that may work for SOME people, not necessarily for everyone. Sometimes we get stuck on doing it the way we've always done it and don't see that there may be other ways to accomplish the same thing that we haven't thought about.
Having dealt with computers since the 1970s and gone through all sorts of software and hardware changes, I have learned that sometimes the key is to learn a new way of something. I haven't always liked doing it that new way, but I have usually been able to figure out how to accomplish what I needed to accomplish once I figured out how to do it with the new tools I had. The one exception was WordPerfect for Windows. That never made sense to me.
Please note that you said that you were told that the feature MAY come back...