I like them because they're retro. I went out of my way to keep them in my Polymorph theme. You can get rid of them trivially with Polymorph, and I think we should talk some more about that.
Do people really like those grip morphs for resizing ? They are ugly and intrusive, restrict the dragging area way to much, and do not even allow a plain extension of the system window horizontally or vertically. I hate them :)
What about a preference to get rid of them ?
Stef