Most of us are against the function of not automatic slicing, because people make the (wrong) assumption that because it's automatic that this is the thing that causes the problem.
Like I said; Making it not automatic hides certain symptoms, it doesn't fix them. I personally don't believe in hiding symptomps, i believe in fixing them. Making the slicing automatic shows the symptomps, which get reported (usually with people writing capslock messages or calling us stupid ), which can then be fixed.
This discussion has been going on for months already and every single time someone said it was the automatic slicing that caused the problem, it turned out to be something else. I think its a bit more of a boy who cried wolf.