Why are hideTitle/hideDescription language independent?

[frisi]

hideTitle and hideDescription should not be language independent fields from my point of view.

it should be possible to hide the description for a translated document but still show it in another language.

do you depend on these fields being language independent anywhere?
what's your use-case?

mine is to hide title and navigation and have tinymce styles that mimic the look of title and description.
this way i can show the (shorter) title in the navigation and the longer title contained in the document text when viewing the article.