Why is the icloud adress limited to 21 characters?

My name was already taken and the same happened me at gmail. My solution was to add my middle name and the result was an address 23 characters long. That was no problem with gmail but icloud seems to have a 21 characters limit, why?
This will probably keep me from aquiring an icloud email address becuase adding something similar to my real name will only result in confusion with the already taken address. Adding my middle name would make some sense but anything else would feel too contrived.
I would really like to be able to use applications like Notes and maybe even mail but not if I can't be able to choose an email address that makes sense so please explain to me why I should be prevented from selecting an address 23 characters long...
Ps. I really love my Apple products (iMac, Mac Book Pro, iPads and iPhones) but I don't like them being locked into services that doesen't make sense to me. It is quite frankly taking the edge off the so called user experience. Stupidity like allowing 21 characters for miljons of users to come up with unique user names...

Today I tried to setup Family Sharing on IOS 8.
First I had to give Apple my credit card number to set it up.  I have always used gift cards up until now and I do not see why apple need my credit card number to use family sharing.  I guess it is so Apple can say they have 5 billion and one credit card numbers on file.  Oh Well.
Then I started to create an apple ID for my 10 year old son.  Well guess what, Apple won't accept my son's email address because it is over 21 characters long.  The domain for my son's email is 17 characters.  Add the @ and that makes 18 which only leaves 3 characters for the name.  I am not changing my son's email address just to get family sharing working. 
Please remove this ridiculous limitation for an apple ID.
I am not going to create a new email address for my son just to use family sharing, No not even an iCloud address.
I am off now to remove my credit card details from my iTunes account.
Too bad that a great idea has been totally ruined because of a silly limit on the length of an email address.

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