An Essay...on Missing Golf Balls

Every golfer knows that sometimes the shot just does not go as planned and the ball strays off into the brush. Some call this a lost ball. Others refer to it as a missing ball, because someone will find it someday and therefore it is not lost at all.
The problem with these missing balls is that while the golfer that hit it into the brush goes in to look for it, his playing partners join in under the guise of "helping." And almost always, the partners find a couple of other balls in the process.
They usually ask "what kind of ball were you playing," as if the stray ball hitter could even recall, all the while palming the ball to cover up the logo.
The playing partners then keep the two balls they found and leave the stray hitter with not so much a found ball, much less the one he hit into the brush.
This is completely unfair.
Nobody invited the playing partners into the brush to look, and they rob the stray ball hitter of even a replacement ball. They almost never find the original stray ball but come up with a bucket of others, which they promptly deposit in their already overweight bag full of other found balls.
Playing partners should leave golf ball hunting to the one who hit it in the brush in the first place.
Just a suggestion for the R&A Rules Committee...