I wonder what the paying travelling public would think if they knew the folks up front were purposely disabling perfectly good equipment.
It's kind of similar to requesting a Non-Precision Approach when a Precision approach is available. Although safe, the safer option is the ILS.
Our jobs are to get the fare-paying passengers from A-B in the SAFEST manner possible. Pulling cb's would not be included in this job description.
There is a fantastic tool called a simulator for this sort of thing.