Yeah, I could write few simple functions for that. But…
I’m working on plugin that speeds up UI implementation. It’s mostly about expanding functionality of native UI elements. Few more params, not too much code and… lot of boilerplate reduced. Faster to create UIs.
I’ve decided most of the plugin in BP, it would much more accessible for users. They could modify/improve for their projects if needed.
And there are very few cases where I can’t access something in BP 
Actually dev team exposes few missing things in every release. It would nice to expose these properties too