Amateur musicians often lack just one or two features in the program they use, and the devs won't respond to their pleas.
Adding support for guitar tabs has made OP's product almost certainly more versatile and useful for a larger set of people. Which, IMHO, is a good thing.
But I also get the resentment of "a darn stupid robot made me do it". We don't take kindly to being bossed around by robots.