In it’s current state, the UX was awful. It was easy to wander into
these settings and break things in weird ways that were not obvious at
all.
That seems like excellent reasoning. Putting things into the Android core that could cause weird breaks unless developers handle appropriate feedback is one thing – putting things into a non-standard rom (even one as widespread as CM) that could cause weird, seemingly-random breaks for developers who are coding for standard Android devices is quite a different thing entirely.
That’s not favoring the developers, that’s favoring “normal” users… and I say that as someone who really would like to have much more fine-grained permission control in Android.
