I would love to support Snow Leopard, and it's something I'll work on next. Lion simply brought some much-needed upgrades to table based UI development, which I wanted to use. It cut down the development time by a significant amount.
Supporting Snow Leopard requires a rewrite for most of the UI logic. I wanted to get the first version out before crossing that bog.
For my defence, I also lead you to the get_search_form() function that does NOT return the search form as a variable, but that really writes it as HTML
I don't know much about Blogger, but as it's a SAAS, how customisable is it? Can you host your own PHP pages, can you do really what you want with the theme?
I think there are differences to consider between hosted blogs and blog scripts you can actually install on your own server and customise the way you want.
And what are this so-called thousands of Google results from countless other developers who have done the same and much more? Dirty workarounds that shouldn't be necessary if WordPress had been made properly in the first place. That's only what the author says: although WordPress rocks to propel blogs, it's far from being made of good code.
you can rewrite a lot of the WP functionality by writing a plugin. if your plugin is popular, it's modifications may be absorbed into the core software that is distributed at wordpress.org. you're calling open source development dirty workarounds.
It's not activated for me yet, but it looks cool. They learnt from twitpic and long-tweets :) I've never wanted to use third party applications for that before
