I love having a properly functioning choke on my thermoquad. I drive my satellite to work in the spring-fall months. Leaving before 7am some days, I sure as heck don't want to sit there and spend minutes babying the throttle before I leave for work. I don't get up early enough for that, and to a lesser extent, don't want to wake up the whole neighborhood! This way I can pump the gas 3 times, hit the key, it fires, 10 seconds later I kick it down and off I go to work. Even on cold mornings I can take off right away.

If you don't drive your car much, I'm sure you're fine with out it. I drive mine everywhere and use it as my daily driver so to me driveability is my primary concern. Besides, with those tiny primaries in a thermoquad, I'm not crying over the idea of losing any flow through there anyway.