That sounds incredibly irrational. I get not wanting to use a Kinect -- I don't want to either -- but complaining about a piece of plastic "staring back at you?" Geeze, did the Wii sensor bar illicit these responses?
It is not irrational at all. I have a kinect now, and I have it disabled. The reason is because the interface is crap. I hate how I move my hand on the dashboard and something pops up. I would rather use my controller to navigate, but if you have your kinect turned on it is always popping up. At least I have the option to turn it off.
If the next kinect is mandatory, is required to be on, and there are no options to turn it off, or put it in standby, there is no way in hell I am going to subject myself to that annoyance.
I think the main thing people fear from Kinect 2.0 is it will become the main force of navigation for their systems. When you hear stuff like "always on, kinect must be connected" of course we are going to think this.....
I will wait and see...