Virtually everyone who has responded "No, do not make browse host optional" has acted as if the question was "Should browse host be removed?" This is not the question, of course, but there seems to be an assumption than anyone who could turn it off, would.

This is a very strong argument for making it optional.

And please try to respond to the actual question, not the strawman, folks. We all agree that LimeWire should support browse host. This topic is about giving the user the freedom to disable it, if they choose to do so...

This freedom will be granted eventually, either in an official LimeWire build or not. Disabling features is much easier than adding them, after all.