chess.com is not aimed at class A+.
Their target is the occasional amateur who wants to watch Danny play bullet and become a master in 5 years by watching videos 
Database functions can wait. It's more important to launch rasberry chessboards : they've been working on them for what ? 3 years now ?!
Duh...
No, but joking aside, their database is not really on par with what exists elsewhere on the Internet, including free options.
No, but joking aside, their database is not really on par with what exists elsewhere on the Internet, including free options.
Moreover, a high quality database that contains historic games from Greco to Alekhine will do far more to enhance the teaching functions of this site than a database with games played since the Second World War. Historic games are far more useful than recent GM games for helping developing players below master level.
Chess.com has long been a website that offers nearly everything offered by other chess websites, but it cannot compete with chessgames.com nor chess365 because (see image)