Where are the "display" and "display by default" checkboxes?

I'm reading through some old issues, especially this one, and I'm confused about why media widget "cannot support" checkboxes for display and display-by-default.
#1201920: Hide field and widget settings that the media widget cannot support

Does anyone know the reasoning that was behind getting rid of this functionality?
I don't really see any explanation of the reasoning in the parent issue either:
#1166168: Expose a widget for filefield and imagefield, so that media browser can be used for them

For me, the use case is a photo album in which i have images that are not always relevant and should be hidden.
I don't want to remove them from the album and have to re-select them each time, because i cycle their display off and on frequently.

I understand that the recommended approach is to use the image widget, but i really want to have the media browser that media widget provides.
Maybe there's there a better approach?