We’ve always designed the product we want, not the product we are asked for.
No UPnP and no file browser are examples of that – “everyone” asked, we told them no. Even if it may be apocryphal, Henry Ford’s quote about the faster horse is what we always believed.
That said, we do listen a lot, but we use that knowledge as feedback, not as instruction.
It was fixed but it was not a super high priority fix, nor was it a big complaint.
I’m not turning this into an “address everyone’s bug reports” thread, but the linking of compositions is a tricky issue. There may be a bug, there also may be limits in what the data design can do. It’s unclear, and this unfortunately has been low on the priority list because there are bigger fish to fry.
1.8 is mostly about polishing existing functionality in the area of UI. For example, the #1 request in the area of UI has been portrait mode tablets and extending the functionality of the phone UI to be a closer match to desktop/tablet. It took years because we had to decide when we were going to bite the bullet and spend a year doing it.