I don't like just dropping this, as it break backwards compatibility, i.e. it will break current MATLAB installations, unless the easyconfig file is adjusted accordingly.
Remember that although we can fix the MATLAB easyconfigs we ship, there may be other MATLAB easyconfigs out there. We don't want to break those in a v1.x release. In 2.0, we can though, when we properly document what we break...