its always done that I find it useful. many time when you are searching for a listing you have no idea how far back to look so this feature is beneficial
one person's bug is another person's feature
please understand no system, no mater how big or small, will be error free. People program computers and we are people hence human hence errors will happen
please understand there are things here that drive me nuts but things like this are painless and as I mention to some of us beneficial