I don't think we could ever change this now. There are undoubtedly
existing applications that depend on this behavior, and we can't
break them.
For what it's worth, this aspect of DrawThemeTextBox will be
documented in some upcoming documentation about using Quartz to
draw text. Here's an excerpt, which also mentions some other
limitations of DrawThemeTextBox:
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