How could that help with "alerted see and avoid" in this incident? It would not have given the other aircraft a better idea of where the 737 was and could have in fact given a false sense of security. The deviation from the direct track wouldn't start being significant until close to the field. i.e. it was immaterial to the event. No wonder it was deleted.
Why did the VFR pilot think a two degree radial difference was anything like enough to avoid confliction?