I meant broad sense of rescan if wallet rescan didnt work including blockchain refresh or pvt key importing.

Most devcoin users are techies and not dumb enough to cry the sky is falling..

That said I understand the importance and I think it should be merged in but the right place for it would be we merge in 0.9 unless you can provide a more compelling why it cant wait fir 0.8.5 to be even finalized.