Is there a good reason for cell paddings in tables to not use system variables?

[DozenDevil]

I've tried to override padding for table cells using system variables, but to no avail. When I looked at the table styling, I found this:

.table>:not(caption)>*>* {
    padding: .5rem .5rem;
    color: var(--bs-table-color-state, var(--bs-table-color-type, var(--bs-table-color)));
    background-color: var(--bs-table-bg);
    border-bottom-width: var(--bs-border-width);
    box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 9999px var(--bs-table-bg-state, var(--bs-table-bg-type, var(--bs-table-accent-bg)));
}

Every attribute uses Sass variables except for padding. And that's strange, because there are available variables with these default values:

$table-cell-padding-y:        .5rem;
$table-cell-padding-x:        .5rem;

And yet they are hard coded still. Why is that?

P.S.: I am aware that I can set paddings directly to tags <th> and <td> perfectly fine. I am not talking about that.

[patkon]

I don't know why they don't use ‘--bs*’ variables here. But it's not hard coded:

bootstrap/scss/_tables.scss

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padding: $table-cell-padding-y $table-cell-padding-x;