Does the 2015 add a cabin air filter, or does GM still not believe we have the right to clean air?

My wife's 10 year old escape and even my Wrangler, a vehicle who's top and doors are never, on, and was designed to forgo creature comforts for heavy duty axles, has a freaking cabin air filter.

Look at the photo.

That's all the crap my wife didn't breath, that I did, in my $55k Tahoe.

Photo is actually of my friends nissan, who's filter I changed today.

 

I don't know how many miles that cabin air filter has on it but it looks worse than any underhood air cleaner filter I have ever changed. Driving in a lot of coal country?

 

From a 2012 nissan rouge. So, around 2 years of use.

Central PA area.

You are correct though, for whatever reason, even with the same age on them, the cabin filters always "look" dirtier. I wonder if it's by design. I imagine they filter smaller than engine does. If you filter too much you won't get any air to the engine. And a n engine uses TONS more air than a cabin could.