Dorico, being new (relatively speaking), has the luxury of introducing a new feature, such as TABs or Condensing, and then perfecting it over subsequent updates. Because Finale has been around so long, folks seem to expect every change or addition to appear fully formed.
Generally speaking, I would agree; but some changes (or additions) like SMuFL are so new (and not totally under Finale's control) that I think it fair to give them some time to make it work perfectly. No doubt they tried to cover everything to start with, but if one does not like the SMuFL implementation, Finale has given folks the option to ignore it, which also seems fair.
The only part I really care about in SMuFL is that first 'S' for "standard". I don't like being trapped in proprietary formats, and SMuFL and MusicXML 4 are a big deal to me because they represent a major step towards interoperability.
Of course, I've spent decades of my career trying to get software to properly support Unicode and standard data formats, so I might be a wee bit biased...
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