Indeed; and I think my opinion lies closer to yours; however, where does it stop? Personally, I think zaxisrotation is fantastic and - possibly in future - should be as widely used as possible. However, editing transitions.ini isn't a nice way of enabling that for such a beneficial feature. So people install the CSSU & a GUI settings editor - which is too complex (or, ultimately, we change the default. Muwahahaha)

Similarly with rotation lock: the CSSU can provide the capability (through a gconf key) to expose an orientation lock. But then it's not actually useful until someone installs the status area menu (note, this is proper orientation lock, not a forcerotation shortcut only for devs). So, now we're up to 3 packages for the "ideal Maemo" experience.

As you say, though, people might not be interested in rotation lock. For though, existing control panel settings applets are replaced or enriched; so you could have Display > Alternate orientation effect and Display > Show orientation lock.