Am I the only one who noticed this? Safari 4's Tabs Bar Lost Multitasking

I previously mentioned how Safari 4 Beta had stepped up their spillover tabs menu oversight by moving you to the area of the tab bar where your active tab sits, so that you could see its neighboring tabs. Suddenly, tabs that didn't fit on the visible part of the tab bar weren't segregated into an inaccessible menu.

This was what the Safari team gave us with Safari 4 Beta:


(To jog your memory, notice that wherever you are, the whiter part of the contextual menu shows which part of the tab bar is visible, and it would move you to that section of the tab bar.)

This is what happened when Safari 4 officially came out:


(Now we're back to being fixed at the front of the tab bar, and only one tab from the contextual menu can show up in the visible part of the tab bar at a time - at the very end of the tab bar. So if I selected the hidden spilled-over 16th "Flickr" tab, it would appear at the end of the visible tab section, beside the 10th "Google" tab. That misrepresents the sequence of the tabs, and reduces what we can do with it when moving tabs around.)

They quietly removed it, and while the blogosphere and media seem to be talking about the Safari 4 official release version, nobody seems to be talking about this. Am I the only one who noticed this? Surely I'm not the only detail-oriented person around here. Maybe all the designers out there just haven't noticed this yet. What a step backwards. My only redemption is that we now have access to the Chrome developer preview for OS X.