Yes. No, it's not a big deal. Aeronautical engineers much smarter than you or I have looked at it and determined it is not worth whatever the cost would be to sync it.
SWA wanted a more efficient 737 but didn't want it to be a separate type rating. They leaned on their buddies at Boeing and the FAA to make sure no information that would encourage a separate type rating made it into the AFM? Occam's Razor.
LAX is pretty congested and there's not a lot of room to hold on the taxiways once you cross 25R, especially because the AA gates are located right there where you roll out when you land on 25L and cross on 25R.
In the initial comms, the controller advised the pilots that their gate was...