Have all the countless people that just want the agent to run considered not having it run AskUserQuestion if they don't want to be asked questions? If a user sets it up to run AskUserQuestion, the assumption is that they are looking for this behavior. They have literally already opted in. Regardless of how many people you think fall into which camp, the response to this isn't to silently change the behavior of the 'ask the user what to do' functionality that basically renders it useless.

And there is no explicit setting to turn off. If you read the issue, you can find that this is a forced behavior that is only circumventable by setting an undocumented environment variable to a high value, but you can't truly turn it off.

This was an inexcusable engineering decision at best and a malicious 'gotcha' that tries to coax more tokens out of users at worst. Truly the AI industry at its peak.