Well, agreeing to Symantec is easy for you or me. But not whitelisting them was reason for them to force thousands of people to uninstall Spybot-S&D during installation. Next to that, without a whitelist, newbies may block enrties of security software, and keeping security intact is important for us. Even worse: without a whitelist, two security softwares could get into an eternal loop of complaining about each others accesses and changes
I agree that an option to disable the whitelist is a good idea, as well as showing the whitelist, but the whitelist will be kept enabled by default, sorry