When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared
I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn't that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn't run on Mac OS or GNU/Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at least of people who would use features like this) doing so on other platforms. Until IE is cross-platform, many developers will continue to ignore it because they have no reasonable way of using it and getting to know it.