I've heard that some corporate networks do this to enable filtering and monitor employee internet usage. I could see that being a somewhat legitimate use case.
Informed consent, in other words.
pdkl95 also makes excellent point about the current default behavior being the problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10630375
Dell would (hopefully) be a lot more reluctant to ship one of these certs and show specific intentions by changing settings to allow this kind of override.