My only motivation is that it pains me to see smart capable people working on insignificant problems.

Maybe I don't understand the problem as well as I should, and I'm open to hearing what it is you think that I'm missing.

But from my perspective, this is a solution for a non-problem, which in my eyes is a problem itself.

You misunderstand: I am asking what is your motivation for presenting a 0.0001% use case as a 50% use case.

The use case you present is so small it can be ignored as an option, yet you present it as the only other option.