[whpalmer4]

As I look at the 1.6.2 release notes, the vast majority of the changes are things that could not be done by scripting, and of the actual new features, I only see one that could be reasonably implemented by scripting (the ability to sort the Inbox with Edit->Sort -- one could write a script that sorted the contents of the Inbox). Given the size of their requested features list, I doubt they'll spend much effort implementing something that can already be done by a script (especially if there's already a script in existence) unless building it into the application is going to provide a substantial improvement over the script.