The reason for the lack of the feature is lower cost. (that's my comment.)
I recently bought a Maplins camcorder with just an LCD view finder (no eye view) I took it on my ski holiday and all could could see was my own reflection in the screen ,presumably because of the snow, it wasnt an expensive item at

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