It's worse: in 2013 the then CEO of Evernote announced that "recurring reminders, a highly requested addition to its recently launched to-do list, is on the way." (http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/09/25/evernote-ceo-more-ios7-updates-fitness-features-recurring-reminders-on-the-way/)
Unfortunately this never happend, and in the meantime there is a new CEO.
Then again, instead of crossing a reminder off, I just change the date to the next occurrence. Not a big deal