Why does a "CCK integer select list" only get 2 operators (is one of, is none of) when used as filter with Views

while the "CCK integer text field" get 6 of them ??

namely
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equal to
not equal to
greater than
greater than or equal to
less than
less than or equal to
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I imagine a case where the select list contains years
1950-2050
and the user looking to filter for years
greater than 2000
then the user has to select all years
above 2000 by hand and also select the "is one of" operator
but that is 50 selects

where if the operator "greater than or equal to"
was there the user would need to
just select that operator and the year 2000

Does it make sense or am I missing something ?
How would you solve such a scenario with the current state
of CCK and views ??
is there a workaround ??

I was looking at this issue
http://drupal.org/node/151989
which solves a similar problem

but I really want the user to pick years from a drop down box