Because we are busy and can’t do everything at once? This falls under “don’t have time”, not “impossible”.
I don’t have any machines without XHCI controllers that I use regularly, so I haven’t looked into isochronous support for EHCI because I don’t need it, and most users don’t seem to either. If there was that significant of a demand for it, well, where’s the upvoted ticket? Where’s the people complaining? “The squeaky wheel gets the grease”, as the saying goes. I suspect axeld was likewise quite busy and not prioritizing disk encryption, if he even had much time at all.
If that were so, it would be extremely strange for humans to make judgements about the morality or immorality of things done in distant countries. But in fact this is completely habitual for humans to do, whether or not one says those judgements out loud. Wars have been waged, whether rightly or wrongly, because one side was very sure the other side’s actions were grossly immoral or unconscionable.
The simple fact of the matter is that humanity acts all the time as if universal morals do exist. Sometimes even while explicitly claiming they don’t, on the basis nobody can agree what they are! But with rare exception, humans simply don’t believe in “might makes right” as the basis of morality, even when we fail to live up to it. (And the exceptions tend to wind up in prison.)
Or, think of it this way. Languages are many and different all over the world. But humans being humans, they all serve the same purpose: to communicate one’s thoughts. If there really wasn’t even a little bit of “universal human morality”, then there would be no words for it with close synonyms across many languages, because there would be no common concept of the thing called “morality”, the way we have common concepts for “earth” or the like. But in fact there are such words that closely correspond. Therefore at minimum the idea of morality is one common and shared across cultures.
There are plenty more groups that enforce behaviors besides those two. People who disrupt the activities of a community, or who are habitually rude, for example, will have some very basic standard of morality “enforced” on them, and shown the door (and/or made to use it) if they don’t.
Anyone who prescinds to judge humanity as a whole is either divine or insane. I am not doing any such thing here. In fact I am not even judging Haiku as a whole, but the actions of individual people, myself included, and stating that if the only way to achieve some outcome is to do an immoral thing, then the outcome simply should not be achieved. That’s not the same as saying the project should commit suicide or be killed or anything, but a remark that in the face of one particular evil, it would be better to accept death calmly, rather than fight fire with fire but in the process become evil or complicit ourselves.
I very much don’t want Haiku to die, either. Fortunately I don’t think we’re anywhere near that. But sometimes extreme cases are useful to clarify or elucidate when considering less extreme ones, hence my consideration of the possibility. Were it ever to come to pass, well, I would be disappointed to say the least. But I could very much live with those consequences.
Happy coding guys, girls and AIs!