Why are "static" directories automatically excluded for the searching files and how I can enable them?

[Charalampos Rempas]

I have tried to read and understand the documentation and I wasn't able to do that. It even says in the docs that the files under the "html_static_path" paths are excluded since version 1.8, even if you add the path to the "include_patterns".

So my question would be, why was that the choice and most importantly, how can I bypass this?