In reply to RiFi.

I’m just confused, if your a developer and they gave you a filter to turn it off, why are we still talking?

Because if you’re developing third-party WooCommerce extensions, then you have an interest in the total market size of the WooCommerce extension market. If WooCommerce burn their reputation as “that pretty good, but annoyingly spammy e-commerce plugin”, then that affects you. Just because there’s a filter, doesn’t mean that 99% of users will know, or know what to do with it.