Why no video playlists????

I was so excited to have the big screen for watching videos on the iPhone, but due to the lack of syncing with video playlists, like is available on the iPod Classic, I've given it up as simply too hard to be bothered with, and I've gone back to carrying my iPod Classic as well as iPhone.
What's up with this? Why is the iPhone such a big step backwards as a platform for video?

There is a way round this that I have posted elsewhere. As long as there is at least one music track in a playlist, you can fill the rest up with TV Shows, movies or whatever. You can then play them from the Playlist menu on your iPhone and watch back-to-back in either portrait or landscape as you please.
Rather than dropping in a real music file, I just created a completely empty music track in Garageband by creating a new song, then immediately exporting it to iTunes (calling it "Blank Track"). I then place this at the end of any video playlists I create.
When you come to sync these playlists to your iPhone, you have to remember to select the appropriate playlist in both the Video and the Music section in iTunes. If your playlist only has movies in it (e.g. Star Wars episodes 1 to 6), then you need to select each of those movies in the Video->Movies section and also the playlist in the Movies section.
I hope all that's clear. It's pretty ridiculous though, and Apple should allow us to sync whatever playlists we want to the iPhone and play them from the Playlists section without the above rigmarole.

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