If you don't want to do it, then don't do it. But don't get out of your way to sabotage a public petition for the OPTION to do it. Nobody will force you to do it if it get's added.
It's a highly requested feature because people really want it. If you ever played a D&D campaing, you would know that players keep getting in and out, and when they are not there, their characters are just resting in the inn, or in the camp, while the actual present people and their characters do the actual adventure and interactions. Nobody is forced to play with the character of a player that is absent.
It's really bad to be 4 people, and needing a save to play 1 & 2 & 3 & 4, a save for 1 & 2 & 3, a save for 1 & 2 & 4, a save for 1 & 3 & 4, etc...
