Maybe lame was too strong a word. I tend to antagonize when my students have been driving me nuts, which they did all day today. Sorry about that. Damn these weather changes
In any case I just thought it silly. I'm all for options, mods, conversions, etc. I don't really care about the designers vision. I only care if I am having fun with the game or not. So having more options is a definite plus.
The problem though is that this glow distracts from the game and the game looks beautiful.
I also don't need to play the game to know that I will turn off some ridiculous hand holding feature. Just like I didn't need to play Bioshock to know that I would turn off that damn quest arrow above my characters head. I do not need or want a game to hold my hand or tell me, "This way to something awesome!" It's ridiculous.
What's wrong with it glowing when you get close to it. That solves two problems. One it still looks good from afar and two it's not pointing the way to something awesome. It takes very little time at all to figure out what the designers had in mind with usable objects and unusable ones.