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copy&paste is the most likly answer. i like that they add spells with casting times longer than a standard action still take as long as the spell. also remember they had no swift spells when those wand rules were drafted.
i also think a swift wand activation would really take away from what a swift spell is. a nice boost that permits you to still do your regular stuff. trading action economy vs duration. often, buffs are very expensive in the cost of a combat round where your getting hit while instead of hitting back, you are doing a round or minute per lv sp. many swift spells would not be worth memorizing at all if you cound swift them from a wand. i think the miniatures handbook or the expanded psioncs handbook discussed why they kept swift spells/powers as standard actions from wands/scrolls.
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I was asking what people felt was Paizo's reason my friend. The Rules Compendium fixed that for 3.5. In 3.5, a swift wand is a swift action and an immediate wand is an immediate action assuming you already have the thing readied.
Pathfinder and D&D are both based on the SRD. Paizo could use the SRD, but the elements of D&D that where not open gaming content are covered by copyright. While the concept of changing the spell trigger time is not copyrightable, the fact that they started with the SRD and then moved forward meant that errata and other material that made it into the Rules Compendium wasnt part of the starting assumptions. Don't necessarily assume that they chose to exclude the updated hoes, but rather that it never made it into the decision matrix due to source and methodology.