I mean, the whole webpage presents their argument why. It’s a whole bunch of garbage, but the’why’ is there.

Same noises Steve Carrell made in 40 year old virgin

You say this like it makes sense that this functionality isn’t the default. Why the fuck does that make sense to you?!

We could go the other way as well: TI’s C2000 microcontroller architecture has no way to access a single byte, let alone a bit. A Boolean is stored in 16-bits on that one.