If it really bugs you just leave the choke out. I forgot to push it in once and wondered where the popping sound was until I realized I'd forgotten to push the knob back. (on a long days highway riding, I went over 100 miles with the choke knob out)

The advantage to our bikes is that it is not really a choke so it didn't stall the bike once it warmed up. It's just like having REALLY rich idle jets. You'll burn a little more gas but otherwise it didn't seem to affect performance except it idles really fast and you don't decelerate much at idle.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.