Maybe I am thinking this is too simplistic, but in the original request to have this turned on @zogstrip said:
But @codinghorror put the kibosh on having the option.
Mad respect for Jeff, but I want it turned off 
I simply want the option of turning the cropping off sitewide as it was before that change. The image would still respect the max image height and width settings. I do not see our user base ever posting super long images like screenshots so we simply do not want this.
An example of how it works now with cropping:
And how I would like it to look:
