>these options are surely useful for a portion of the userbase otherwise they would not be displayed. These options are there because they've always been there

>these options are surely useful for a portion of the userbase otherwise they would not be displayed. These options are there because they've always been there. Would you give users of the JVM (not program writers, mind you, but just people using the JVM) the ability to turn off the garbage collector? >All these options are under the configuration menu anyway so no inexperienced user are not going to go in this menu anyway... First rule of UX is not to assume you know how a user acts. Very inexperienced people can end up legitimately confused and do very irrational things. Probably for the best not to give them the gun to shoot their feet.