Is there a reason why Pages are not publicly_queryable?

Question

I am building a segmented search (by post type) with the ability to filter to a specific post type and realized pages were not publicly queryable. What I know I can do is the following:

function fix_page_query() {
    if ( post_type_exists( 'page' ) ) {
        global $wp_post_types;
        $wp_post_types['page']->publicly_queryable = true;
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'fix_page_query', 1 );

which does allow them to use post_type as a query var, but are there any shortcomings to doing this? Was there a specific reason they are not by default? I did see this ticket about the subject, but could not decipher a clear answer. Thanks!

Answer 1

Just to close this one out - you can set Pages to be publicly_queryable using the function provided above.