Yea, meant to elaborate that in my post but didn't for whatever reason. The SR level G3 and GT's all came with the straps, SR G4's didn't.
I also know what they stated their rational was, I just found it really poor. It's a low cost item that has been found in both previous SR lines but they removed it because "People didn't see the added benefit, oh, but we kept it on our Pro line because they saw the benefit."
That rationale doesn't make too much sense to me.