Your complaint seems to be that they haven't shipped a huge project which a bunch of people are working on and adding a backwards-compatibility hack for people who use older network hardware which generates incorrect self-signed SSL certs but also choose not to install valid certificates on this device.

I mean, it would be great for a few people if they added the ability to ignore this check but it's not a surprise that it's a lower priority compared to implementing HTML5/ES6 features which will provide a better web experience for millions of people.