Raymond Chen of Microsoft may not have written about your exact topic, but he has written about others like it. And as he says, "Every feature starts with -100 points." There is no compelling need for the feature you are asking for; the code to implement it is too short, too unlikely to be used in very many places, and would be no better in a library than in the application.
People already complain that the Win32 API is bloated. Be happy they didn't add this.