but this requires user interaction...

edit:
please don't get me wrong!!! in general I'm on par with your opinion to have choices... choices are good. but i don't want to have a half finished thing..
for example think on the backgrounds of the homescreens. if they are in portrait you can't make such nice effects like a panorama over all 4 screens.
there are so many things to think about.

i think some members here didn't react in a way you would have expected. i thinks, that's because we know how it works with maemo. It's not like symbian, that we get a device which we can't change at all.
if we would like (and I know there is at least one progger, who would like to have ASR) we could implement that feature. also the way how you promote your opinion was very... ummm extroverted ;-) posting in many many old threads and posting a lot is not the maemo-way. we have an edit-function to prevent doble-posts. and that a new thread was started was a way to show you how it should NOT be.
Personally i think that there are pros and cons about ASR. in some situation it is usefull, but in others it would going on my nerves so that i could throw the device on a near wall... ;-)