I'm totally fine with getting rid of keepers, but I don't think it's fair to do it this year. I might have made different roster moves last season if I knew it weren't a keeper league. I'm sure a lot of rookies were drafted higher than they normally would have been because they could have potentially been franchised.
If people are going to quit the league over keepers, I don't care about it THAT much, but it seems like a weird thing to quit the league over.