No, 5% are opting to remove it. You have no idea how many are leaving in frustration, and how many don't know how to turn this thing off. I can assure you 95% of people aren't "opting" to keep it.
I've totally stopped opening links from extremetech on my ipad due to the unusability of the interface.
Stop arguing with your users. You're not going to convince us with numbers that we're wrong. We've used your app. It does in fact suck.
Take that to heart. Please.