WTF was sun thinking with MIDP 2.0?

I've been working on some Java ME projects on my own time, outside of work, and it seems like practically whenever I try to save time, effort, and space by using the provided classes it instead leads to the complete opposite, which just pisses me off! There are a limited number of things that MIDP 2.0 added that are actually useful such as FullScreenMode, and ImageRotation fast enough to use realtime, practically everything else however seems to be tripe (WeakReferences and Floats are a CLDC 1.1 thing).
Tonight's example: The Sprite class. I need the static fields from the class anyway for Graphics.drawRegion() calls, and since the class is provided for me, there's no reason to waste my time, and increase my jar size by writing and including a custom sprite class, particularly since at least some implementations probably don't suck (thanks SonyEricsson). OH WAIT, there is no accessor method for the image it refers to, and Offset and frameDimensions must be calculated from provided accessors, in the later case, a task that is impossible if your image is a block rather than a strip. This means that I am going to need to store another reference to the image in my class, that I ACTUALLY CAN access. 4 bytes * 200+ buildings = >800bytes heap wasted?
Last night, it was the GameCanvas, that doesn't let you access the actual buffer image. If I want a canvas that can change orientations, and I extend from this, I basically have to triple buffer, and I hear that speedy graphics memory tends to be limited.
Sun may have had reasons for these decisions, but seriously WTF were they thinking? What kind of mobile programming experience did the architects have? I really want to know. Are there plans to update any of these classes in the next revision?
Edited by: Shroud on Sep 23, 2007 10:47 PM

Sun may have had reasons for these decisions, but seriously WTF were they thinking? It's not SUN my dear friend. It's JCP. Every member of the JSR expert group which came up with this spec has an equal say in this!

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