I understand why coin control was not implemented. With the short stake period - 5 days - keeping an eye on the coins could be a full time job. Currently every month or so I just send all my coins from one wallet to another to eliminate dust.
With a short stake period it becomes even more important to manage the dust effect, and although you can do this by regularly sending all coins between wallets, coin control provides a more 'elegant' way to do this - or maybe i'm just a control freak

Dev also said that he likes coin control and when PHS grows it can be added, so I'm looking forward to this.
Btw, I don't agree about coin control adding confusion - as a default the feature is switched off and it needs to be specifically activated with an 'experts only' warning.
I have been thinking lately of a few better solutions to long term dust issues without a hardfork, for example the 10 day client I put out can really cut it down on it over time. I tested CC out on PHS some time ago so it's something that can be added. As long as you guys support any possible user issue with it later