So he is the best of a bad bunch? How does Millenium Falcon rate in your eyes? Its free with a little bit of code that might mine for the developer for a little bit. If I advertise my voluntary services and get a job picking up clothes for a charity. Then at the end of the day I take a pair of socks, do they belong to me?
Some people may be fine with it however the user is not informed so that he or she may make the decision to mine for the developer or not.
If its absurd to think that 5 pools might fail, therefore switching to mine for the developer, then why did the developer write the code for such an absurd event in the first place?
I am personally more than capable of reading the code and changing it to my liking. I am however concerned because most people don't read code and won't be aware let alone able to change it.
I would like to see the 'feature' mentioned in the documentation with an explanation of how to disable or configure it.
BTW you could use the windows scheduler for restarting at regular intervals.