If an exit confirmation were to be added, I'd hate--I'm using the word HATE here--to see it be anything but optional. One of my utmost pet peeves in applications are stupid exit confirmations that cannot be turned off.
Understood but IF you were ripping and/or burning wouldn't you want that alert?
Not necessarily. Maybe I'm ripping or burning, but decide I need to reboot, or I just want to exit MC for some other reason. In that case, I would not want an annoying exit confirmation.
There is
zero reason for an exit confirmation to be anything but an option. I think it is a
good option to have, but absolutely, positively, objectively, and definitively not a good thing to
force on everyone.
So it's not that I (or others) don't "understand", I just don't want it forced on me, because I find the annoyance more of an issue than accidentally exiting (which I've never done anyway). And yes, lots of applications (multitasking or otherwise) have exit confirmations, but the well-designed ones make it optional, and enabled by default.