Why haven't environmentally-reactive bodies developed as an evolutionary advantage?
As Jamesqf pointed out, food supply was likely a big contributor. As a general expansion onto that, I believe a sufficiently reasonable answer could be that animals likely found solutions (I.e. migration and hibernation) to deal could with seasonal factors out of their control (like lack of resources) before natural selection leading to more defined adaption could/would've taken place. Their behavior dealt with the problem- which leads to another interesting idea that it could have been an early sign of organisms using their intelligence to survive and change the course of natural selection.