I hear your angst but personally I really like the trait, even though it is a bit annoying to be constantly replacing items. When it gets a bit repetitive I just hop into Manage Households and change out their traits using the cas.fulleditmode cheat, or just delete the sim in question as game generated sims are nothing to me.
In all honesty removing traits like this would just be a huge step backwards for this game, yep, the trait isn't perfect by a long shot but at least it actually makes a difference when you use it unlike a lot of the other traits that are more or less useless as they don't really define the sims from each other.
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