agreed technically its just a few lines of code

politically:
doing something so simple causes issues to devs wanting to monetise(get income) from their services (LN commercial hubs) to repay their debt

bitcoin was suppose to remove politics and systems only for the rich.. bitcoin has lost nearly all of its ethos by the greedy ignorant devs that just shout "just pay more" rather than expand capacity PROPERLY. devs should be devs, not economists

(segwit still only offers a empty gesture of hope of .. yep 7tx/s just so they can then push people into LN)