That’s why I actually do not understand your point.
I don’t think it lacks acceptance, I think most people are just afraid of flashing a custom ROM on their phone. Probably, if a phone on the mass market would come with CM instead of regular Android, most users wouldn’t even realize the difference. But that of course is speculation.
The point is that CM offers much more flexibility for the users, plus more privacy features. Talking about flexibility or customization: Stupid things like this could easily be avoided, if you simply let user decide which shortcuts to use, instead of the developers. I was actually shocked when getting my FP1, after using CM, how limited the user is with customizing the OS.
While still hoping to once find a port of CM for the FP2, for now I think it is more likely to get Android 6, so that at least more privacy settings will be available. But honestly, with the current software situation I am again struggling a bit with another FP.