And please stop asking about 2.0.14. This topic is about 2.0.13 and its release.
Yes, yes it is, and people find the release lacking because the things that external forces deem necessary are finally pushing SMF to fix things.
If it helps rationalise it, every person who is pushing for 2.0.14 is expressing the fact that 2.0.13 has some major gaps in it.
The fact that people with the skills and time have indicated a willingness to help fix the problem only to be given a highly cryptic and unhelpful response is part of the problem.
And unfortunately the 'we're all volunteers' card doesn't carry enough weight when peoples' sites are losing members because of continuously deferring a problem until it's someone else's problem - this situation with 2.0.14 was a known issue in 2014 (hah). Every release from 2.0.8 onwards was an opportunity to lay the groundwork for dealing with this issue. Including 2.0.13.
You want to talk about 2.0.13 rather than 2.0.14? Why didn't SMF tackle this problem in 2014 or even throughout the bulk of 2015 before it would have been a problem? Why is it now, 18 months after 7.0 released, that it's finally being dealt with? Because no-one in that time could possibly have said 'maybe we should fix this'?