Why are missing values not ignored by default?

From the blog article by Kamiński, which I’ve already cited here

Such opinions are always debatable, so recently I decided to run a small pool on Julia Discourse about the skipmissing function. The question was if we want to shorten the skipmissing name into something that is more convenient to use in interactive work. To my surprise, a vast majority of voters preferred a verbose and explicit operation name.

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