I doubt it's a "really hard" thing to fix; in fact it is fixed for the consoles lol. At this point I'd chalk it up to a bug that becomes a feature.
Iirc there's even a command that spawns things in? Although, of course, consoles enjoy none of those luxuries (which I quite enjoy haha, as someone who likes to collect things the hard way).
It really depends on the developer's perspective whether certain quality things should be retconned or kept, and there are in fact a few QOL things that have been treated as bugs and "fixed".