display order settings

Today I read the changelog of Drupal 7 and it says:

"Removed display order settings for comment module. Comment display
order can now be customised using the Views module."

As the forum for core development questions is also removed, I post my concern here in this group.

I think the display order of comments is a basic feature of comments for that I don't want to install an excessive module like Views. Is there any reason to remove this small but basic feature in core?

Marenz