The decision was made a little while ago. Here’s what was said on another thread explaining it…
The reason I’ve quoted here is most probably one of many. Unfortunately Android doesn’t have the same workaround as iOS, there’s not very much that can be done to address this. Maybe we’ll see the beloved options available later on? Who knows…
The thread I’ve linked in the quote has quite a few explanations in it which include many different reasons, so maybe you could have a poke around in there and read through some of the explanations given to others when the change was first made.