Why is WiFi sync so hard for Apple?

Can someone who works at Apple explain to all the users on these forums WHY WiFi sync is so painfully hard for Apple to implement?
The current implementation is so unreliable I don't even bother to use it infact I go out of my to tell people not to even bother with it because when you expect it to work; For example you leave iTunes running in the evening when you goto bed plug your iOS device into a charger and EXPECT it to just be sync'd ONCE in the 7 hours that I'm sleeping. Forget it you might as well just plugin your cable to your Mac and do it the old fashioned way.
This also applies to AirDrop, I feel as if it's gotten to the point where Apples marketing is leaving it's product in the dust. AirDrop another "wireless" feature that's been touted since 10.7 (Lion) is again unreliable or there are SO many hoops to jump through that it's just quicker to either EMAIL, iMessage or even connect to a shared drive than to bother trying AirDrop. You can even have all of your contacts sync'd with the person your trying to AirDrop and they won't show up in the AirDrop panel.
I am a huge Apple fan my home network is end to end Apple I even have an Airport Extreme that over heats and reboots itself from time to time.
Stop redesigning the iTunes interface, for a few product cycles and get those features that have been in iTunes for ALONG time to JUST WORK.
Remember that old saying "IT JUST WORKS" we need to get back to that. Don't tell me how amazing the design is or what materials it's made of IT "SHOULD" JUST WORK.
If I can ping my iPhone's IP from my Mac my iPhone SHOULD show up in my iTunes device list END OF STORY. If it doesn't it's broken and it NEEDS to be FIXED.

I don't think anything is 'taking' them a long time, they oould release one tomrorow but the price point could be the biggest hurdle. I'm not sure that they can build it the way they want to and keep prices under 3k

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