Weird, first time i feel rejected by a company/service. Feels like highschool.
It's perfectly sensible and appropriate that such a request would be rejected. It's really no different than, say, requesting that the directory listing functionality of the ls command be removed. Yeah, it is a suggestion, but it's surely not a viable one.
EDIT: and it works on smartphones, too, which I've personally been using to get some writing done on my galaxy note 2 while on the go or at the coffee shop/bar.