Why are macro_rules! scope rules so cursed

I’ve been a Rust programmer for several years. I love the language but one rough area has always been macros. I have a particular question though about why scoping works the way it does with macros.

In order to export a macro for use, you must do one of two things:

1. `#[macro_export]` which just dumps it at the root of the crate
2. Define the macro then `pub use` it after (not before)

Why are the scoping rules so cursed? Nothing else in the language works this way. Why can’t you just do `pub macro_rules! my_macro` …

I know Macros 2.0 are supposed to fix this but that feature basically looks stalled and I don’t have high hopes it’ll ever be finished (like so many unstable features).