A shame about the truly artistic works of can art I'll agree, but a victory for everyone whose system has ever lagged due to the amount of crap left behind in some high-sec systems.
I wound up mounting a gun on my Cheetah just to chew up all the frigates and shuttles I'd find when I was probing. In Empire systems, there's what looks like solid lines of abandoned shuttles and noobships along all the common warp lines.