So basically they made a design decision that was thought to be good for the users privacy and it turned out to be a horrible decision. I can understand the reasoning behind their ìnitial design, but I can't understand why this hasn't just been thrown out and replaced already after it turned out so obviously flawed?

At least they could have deprecated that system and allowed it to work with old apps, while encouraging new apps to use an iOS-like we'll-ask-when-we-need-it kind of system?