Not just the SFA, it part of the laws of the game. I think it's because in theory a deliberate hand ball could result in an advantage to the other team, for example if the ball is going out for a throw in and somebody catches it the other team gets a free kick which is more advantageous than a throw in.
Like you I thought a deliberate hand ball was a yellow and only recently found out it's not.
But none of them were even cited; so asking if we would we have complained is irrelevant; if they had been the complaints probably wouldn't be as loud or happening at all.
Trying to use the example of something similar that didn't happen to justify something that did just doesn't work.
One thing that's missed in this is that we would need to build a decent standard of temporary changing facilities during the replacement. Apart from the cost there is limited areas for locating them.
Watching this for the first time on youtube, VAR in Scotland is embarrassing; the first was a red every day of the week, the actual red was a total joke wasn't even a yellow.
Only on the east coast, NRL is practically non existent in South and Western Australia. Netball and basketball probably have bigger attendances. Football is actually the biggest participant team sport in Western Australia.
We only picked up 1 point from the last three games so you could say we collapsed a bit too. The point was at Raith and we were cruising 3-0 at one point.