In my opinion it shouldn't be removed because Wipeout is a (very) hard game and PA helps the popularity of the game. Here in France when Wipeout HD came out, it had excellent reviews from the games magazines, most of them talking of PA as a great idea to help beginners get into this game that was always considered very difficult. Personnaly I started playing with PA for 1 month then I disabled it progressively to gain speed. If PA didn't exist I don't think I would've bothered with Wipeout HD for more than 15 minutes because the way the ship halts when you hit the walls is sometimes "shocking" (compared to the other racing games)
anyway PA slows down and disallow some shortcuts so it's not a easy way of beating good non-PA pilots
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