I find this a strange argument. It sounds like you are saying the most sane effective way to comply with the protocol *yet discovered*, was not an invention, it was “always in the protocol” because it had to be in the protocol for things to work. While also admitting it was never described anywhere precisely enough until a client dev used their creativity to solve a problem you hoped they would solve with creativity.

And also it sounds like you are annoyed other client devs are dragging their feet at implementing the same solution to the problem that you hoped client devs would solve in a number of different creative ways? Do I have it right? 😀