Isn't this a dll feature (so not easy to be optional)? and also a lot of people like this (count me on that club)
I feel you on a lot of people liking the feature. I assume that to be the default though, so I was just stressing the many who don't. It probably is DLL based, so idk how much work would be needed to make it an optional addition, but imho if firaxis had this feature working in vanilla, a mod or something to make it optional would probably have been one of the first tasks someone in the community tackled. It's that divisive a thing.
I'd like it if it were more fleshed out, but making it optional works just as well for me. As it currently stands, I can take one city, kill a couple of units and sign a 3rd party peace treaty for ~39gpt pretty much right away, then move on to the next civ. Certainly exploitable when the user does it, and simply annoying when the AI does it. Plus, it can be used as a cop out to get peace in a war in which you were sure to be crushed in, if you can just suicide some units in so that you can pillage a trade route or 2, then get peace and enough gpt to build your empire.