All right, all right -- Guilty! The persistent mouse cursor is so handy over the artillery crosshair in bad weather or night. (Oooops, gave away a trade secret and admitted to occasionally "gaming the game.")
But Your Honor, if "they" didn't mean for the cursor to be a gunsight illuminated pointer, why did "they" leave it on the screen?
Build a mouse pointer and they will come to it and they will use it and they will thrive, verily.