And it doesn't make sense to throw money in to wells, fountains, or other water features in order to "make a wish", and yet people do it probably tens of thousands of times a day all over the world. Ultimately, such is the beauty of bitcoin. Your coins are yours and yours alone, and you can use them however you wish. If you want to burn your coins then you are free to do so, even if everyone else thinks it's a stupid idea.

Also worth pointing out that coins in such addresses are not provably burned. They could still be spent in the future, if someone either stumbles across the correct private key or if the ECDLP and hash functions are broken and someone can reverse engineer a necessary private key for one of these addresses. Only coins which are sent to unspendable outputs, such as OP_RETURN, are provably burned.