Obviously people want the ability back to underclock. I've been mining for nearly 6 years now. It is extremely useful in so many scenarios. It makes 0 sense and is incredibly short sighted to defend removal of the feature.
True, it's very shortsighted of them to not cater to the
wants of < 1% of their consumer base. What are these people thinking by gearing their software towards the
needs of those that buy 500-1,000 units at a time?

Then why sell to the home miner at all? We are just a bunch of PIA whiners anyway...
Obviously they want the all the coin they can get.
Since they are going to sell to us, they should at least make they attempt to give us some of what we want.
Fortunately there are other options, though not as efficient.