Your choice, obviously. To me it's no burden. Just lines of code in the software. Something I will never see and something that makes no difference in the performance of the camera. Five of my last six cameras claimed to be capable of taking video. Couldn't prove it by me. I never used the feature on any of them. It's a pretty safe bet that whatever camera or cameras you have that there are features you don't use and never will use. Why limit yourself in what you buy simply because of another unused feature? Look around at all the products with computer chips in them, which is an ever growing list, and see how many have features you will never use. If things like that bother you then you must have a very short list of things you will buy. I share your dislike of tools that are compromised by a multi-function design, but that is not the case in cameras, or most other electronics.