New Post: [Table] and [Column] apparently ignored

I posted this question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24918406/ef6-ignoring-table-and-column-in-entity-classes

and perhaps did the wrong thing by marking it answered before seeing anything from the Entity Framework team. I have solved the problem in my code without using the [Table] and [Column] annotations generated by the tooling, but I wonder -- why is it the case that they apparently are not useful? (They seem to be ignored at runtime.)