"most of the clients do not give a hoot"

Bingo!

When the standard deduction got cranked up a few years ago, a large portion of my clients lost the ability to itemize.  So of course we told them they don't need to bring in their itemized deductions of $32 to the church, $15 of prescriptions and $41 for license tabs, etc.  Even though we tried, those same clients still spend their time recapping all of those valuable deductions.  They are apparently clueless because they never look at anything other than whether or not they have a refund or if they owe.  Providing a schedule A on every return would mean nothing, because they never look at their return.  Some preparers here have client lists that are comprised of primarily sophisticated taxpayers.  I do not.  And since I have been here for quite awhile, I'm pretty comfortable saying my clients aren't much different than most of the preparers visiting here.  So the moral of the story is, unless you are billing by the pound, why generate a lot of paper that the client will never look at.