i suspect that no one at nokia expected (or perhaps wanted, from a liability/warranty standpoint) their users to be mucking about so deep within maemo. End result is a whole host of hardcoded or disabled features, from waht one would expect given the basis its built on.

basically, nokia have been walking the line between full open source, where anyone can play around with (and potentially break) anything, and the traditional canned experience of its previous products. As long as the product have a nokia logo on it, they will want to minimize the areas where people come to them when they have tried something third party and it broke the device.

sadly, nokia never EOL their products, so there is no way to claim that they have dropped all support for something and so should be legally free to allow us access. This on top of their closed sourced elements thats vital to the continued functioning of the device (like MCE that apparently handles all things power, and could potentially allow a battery to overcharge and "blow up").