I’ll also add my voice to @willcooke and @jbicha - this line is “short term gain, long term pain” personified.
Later down the line, when a user wishes to upgrade their system, they will often find something they did 6 months ago which comes back to bite them, and breaks the upgrade. This is the #1 example of that. Users who randomly remove packages from the install may find their experience ‘better’ but when they come to upgrade their system they will likely completely forget they did this, and may not realise the impact either. They will likely come to our support channels and complain that upgrades are broken, and it’s our fault. This is incredibly frustrating for volunteers giving their time to support Ubuntu. It also helps perpetuate that Ubuntu upgrades are ‘broken’ when in fact it’s often the case that the user ‘broke’ their system 6 months ago, but completely forgot they did it. 