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I disagree.
There can be more than one way to use a feature but some of those ways can most certainly be wrong. Features should have purpose. If they're used for different purposes that can be OK, as long as the new purposes aren't negative, but when the overwhelming usage of a feature that was only implemented as a byproduct of something else and left in on the assumption the user base was mature and intelligent enough to know when to and not to use it gets horribly misused more than it's legitimately used it needs to die.

Not claiming that every way to use it is legitimate, just that there are uses outside its intended purpose. However, people will complain about this feature regardless if the usage was legitimate or not. For that reason, then yeah, it needs to die.