Fruit trees make a mess. The fruits fall if you don't pick it. Rotting fruit smells and attracts insects such as wasps.
The point is to eat those Mother Earth treasures: soft-persimmons, figs, clementines-mandarines, peaches, medlars, all those things are just so delicious and nutritive
What you said is exactly what some people around say when they cut those trees, makes me extremely sad