I agree with Morpheus when he says, I respect HTC and the staff who run the company so I trust in them and their decisions.
I can understand the reason behind it but just moving it to another channel '200' kinda defeats the purpose. It's still the same thing just a different channel. Only difference is the newbies will be completely lost until they hear about channel 200.
The command is cool but I (and I doubt others) won't waste a radio channel to tune to 1 just for salutes. This needs to go directly to the player or over ch 200. My $.02