It impacts me and there is no good reason not to support such feature. Fire Emblem Awakening didn't feature local regionfree multiplayer either, but I didn't intended to play that with friends to begin with.
Still I found it frustrating as hell. Handhelds get played on the go, I know most people don't play with foreign consoles as much as I do (imports exist, mind you), but when every other console out there is region free, this it's pretty depressing.