Why should it, the Church developed a more "pastoral" practice over the course of a few centuries.
Would you have us go back to the times when sinners had to stand outside of the church building with a sign around their necks stating the sin and how long they were excommunicated? That's where the days in purgatory originally came from btw.
God makes it way easier to be forgiven than any church does.
His requirement is simple.
Confess and He will forgive.
Not prerequistes no qualifications as to when, where, or how.
We cofess to Him whose laws we have broken, the one whom we have offended and He will forgive. Period.