@KristiB1 totally understand the frustration. Unfortunately, the demand for this feature relative to others just isn't high enough. And yes, CJA is the focus moving forward, but that doesn't mean that Analytics will not receive improvements and updates in the future. 

Sorry for the delay in responding. We have identified a solution but it's complicated and costly in terms of development time and we have been prioritizing more important issues like CJA. So for now, it's still on the backlog with no timeframe for when we might do it.

We are using visitor identification to link the visits.  This may or may not be using cookies (there are many ways to do visitor identification in Analytics  (third-party cookies, first-party cookies, customer visitor id, use a login, IP+user-agent, etc).  We will use whatever the customer’s impleme...