Funny how people always get triggered into discussions which have nothing to do with the initial question. Yours truly is not entirely immune, but with awareness one can try.
I don't know when this was changed as I haven't been around here when it was different, but find it reasonable to think that, if the change was not an accident, it was done to mitigate complaints about erratic behaviour of the docking computer which may have been found more difficult or impossible to fix. After all the machine is required to make situational decisions which can be tricky to formulate in exact rules.
I like to keep both assistants (ADC+SCA) in my builds wherever possible and I don't care what the hecklers think about that. I am far out exploring most of the time and use them almost always, i.e. also for landing anywhere in the wilderness. There has been only one incident so far where it actively tried to kill me by suddenly flipping the ship over and boosting against the next rock. Having made provisions for errors, recovering from it was no big deal. I heard from others who had similar things happen upon entering a station. Nothing is perfect, and in this case preventing it from shifting pips by itself should help reduce the risk of fatalities, and thereby the number of support requests the company has to deal with.