If you want to discuss useless ports, let's talk about balanced outputs. In a home audio system, these perform no purpose whatsoever; but manufacturers like Outlaw now are compelled to put them on because some marketing genius (at some competitive company a few years ago) decided it was a great selling point and forever thereafter the uninformed audio fanboys insist on having them. If you don't have balanced outputs, you must not have a very good product, huh? Yeah. Right.

Do I express myself too vehemently? Well, I feel vehemently about this ridiculous waste of money, resources, and backplate real estate.