> this 65k limit is barely a minor annoyance that only a very tiny percentage of Android apps ever hit

This is not true, you can easily hit this limit because of a dependency that you _need_ that pulls e.g. Gauva, of when you use 2 or 3 libraries from Play Services, which are huge

> (and there are easy workarounds)

Easy maybe, but the issue is still more than _a minor annoyance_ imo