1 is not unavoidable. I’ve never gotten a clear answer on the explanation, but the most reasonable ones involve power-saving and frequency-saving strategies (only poll for new connections for a few hundred microseconds per second). And I think these are eminently solvable.

On 2, my question isn’t “why haven’t they fixed #2 for this use case?” it’s “where does the effort to address this relatively small use case come from while #2 remains unaddressed “?