Comment 2 for bug 941670

In a perfect world, they would not have to consider it. Unfortunately, the world is not perfect. Users who buy a 52x drive are rightly confused when it apparently can only rip at 2x. This is not really acceptable if there is any way around it. You could disable paranoia by default, but then you could be left with users of older/bad drives getting poor quality rips, which again is not acceptable.

Users are not so stupid that they are frightened by options. Most can be happy never noticing it, but those that do wonder why their ripping experience is bad will take a closer look and find an option that can help them.