I wouldn't go that far. My guess is, he wanted the feature to just BE THERE, as in click a box and its done. No work on his part. What he forgets - and a lot of people, apparently, is that the bulk of the layouts on Dreamwidth were created from the ground up - they weren't inherited over (with the exception of Negatives, Transmogrified and Zesty. Maybe a few things that people take for granted, like journal names in the title bar weren't added either through basic oversight or designer preference.

I just had no idea that would be such a dealbreaker. Man alive, I've never seen such a reaction over a title bar.