True, but if the director doesn't want their movie to have chapters I can respect that. Laserdiscs never consistently had chapters anyways, whether they were being "cheap" or not.
The DVD of "Knife in the Water" even had the pause button locked out by request of the director. They wanted it played straight through no matter what.
Kino's recent titles have not had chapter indexes. They were just stills anyways, they were never named. In the laserdisc days there was a bit of an art to naming each chapter.
I've seen chapter indexes left out of a number of recent Blu-Ray menus unfortunately, although they were still chaptered and could be accessed manually. I've always wondered who has the job of deciding where chapters go- I've done it for a few movies I've transferred to DVD myself and was hard...