Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Hiding ArticleFeedback on the English Wikipedia/reply (6)

Two reasons:

a) Because if the code ever changes (and it may) your css hack will cease to work; and b) Because indicating that you have turned it off is something we (the WMF) can detect, and serves as a useful metric for showing us how many people have elected to hide the feature (which gives us data on the overall acceptance and adoption rate). So if you hate the tool, not using the preference to turn it off will work against you.