Ignoring two different ascii bytes is not "1.0+ usability". The idea that it is a matter of work is an insane rationalization. Someone else said it is to prevent 'bike shedding'.

None of the backwards rationalizations people give actually makes sense, especially since it literally breaks any "hello world" program on windows. It's insane that people would try so hard to make excuses for such a basic disregard for new people.

Think about the reverse. Let's say tabs are treated as spaces and carriage return bytes are ignored. Who would ever argue that something should be changed to break these things?