Perhaps, but last time we had a thread on small papercuts, it ballooned into a 4000+ post thread, the supply of “Ohh it’s just a few lines of code! you could do this one thing quickly! why are you not doing this?!” style issues is seemingly endless. (That sometimes turn out to be not just a few lines of code, but have rather large design issues attached to them)
Priorities have to be set, and currently they are set in a way where core devs spend more time on larger projects.