It’s not a big deal, but we work to a rule of three generally. If something is requested by three or more people, we consider it. If it’s just one person making the request we don’t prioritise it because it’s a bit of a snowflake.
We don’t. 
We work hard to put almost everything behind a setting so that site owners have flexibility. In this case you are aware of the simple workaround, so that’s likely your best route forward until this feature request is prioritised (if that happens).