Risking dropping a genuinely useful feature for an engineering vanity project just to mark the 10th anniversary of a product feels very Tim Cook's Apple to me.
As Marco Arment put it on the ATP (ep. 229) podcast
>In so many recent Apple product developments, because so much of the low hanging fruit of modern hardware has been picked already. We are so often having to make progress only by making certain things worse or by giving up certain things we're not quite ready to give up yet, and we do this in order to get the new hotness.