I agree. I just find it hard to understand why so many people want avatars but so few will accept a simple workaround at least for the time being that allows us to have them right away, without pleading any case to TPTB.
In the mean time by all means keep fighting the good fight against the irrational and unfair avatar phobia that makes such a workaround necessary but why not have avatars in the mean time, anyway?
Until the day finally arrives, we can always fall back on Plan B: