I'm not trying to desperately defend untoggable grass shadowing. I'm rather trying to defend Bethesda in this. I think it's important to realize how rare it is nowadays that people on PC platform are getting something extra. They wanted Creation Kit, they got it. They wanted hi-res textures, they got it. They wanted grass shadows and better underwater, they got that too. This isn't that normal in today's gaming industry as far as I know.
PC gamers didn't ask Beth for those things. the creation kit comes out no matter what. And we knew we'd get better textures and such via mods. Better under water via mods. All the updates they keep releasing could have been done by modders and those mods wouldn't be breaking the game like the Beth updates are. They're just crippling the game by forcing these updates no one asked them for.