Thats why theres things like resize restrictions so it doesnt look too large on peoples screens, I notice many in here say they dont like them personally but considering their members are uploading them it is obvious they like them and perhaps we should be thinking about what they like not what administrators like. My girlfriend owns a pregnancy and parenting community and that feature is needed on her website, her members think its stupid how you need to go elsewhere to upload one and she is regretting ever converting from vb to this with things like this being missing and it may be beta but by now you would think such a simple feature would be here. Everyones attitudes are "I personally dont like this" so its probably not going to be implemented anytime soon is not very reassuring and seems that the software is being created based on what administrators and yourselves like when the forum software is ultimately for the members of the community and not one person who wants to upload an image wants to go elsewhere to do so and is inconvenient which you all know.
If things remain like this when it goes gold then we certainly wont be using the software for very long and you may not care for criticism because you believe your personal opinions are correct but I can see things going downhill because of it. Never mind though, we will just have to check back when the software goes gold to make a final decision and I hope that members suggestions no matter how small they are or how much theyre not liked personally are put into serious consideration especially when theyre bog standard in other paid softwares, you would expect to see it and perhaps give admins an option to turn it off if they dont like the feature. I would hardly consider this feature "bloat" as I have seen others say recently about adding features.