Well, technically, a crop does nothing to the information in the raw image. So, it's not like the raw information it can work on has changed.
I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to have the auto presets sample the cropped information, if that even makes sense to the processing pipeline. And, of course, the auto presets might already do this. I just recall reading about this, perhaps on the older Adobe forums.
It's very very odd that the auto exposure doesn't consider what I consider to be the image. Is there any rational explanation for this? Is this a feature request?
