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Multiple reasons.
It will eat battery (when connected or when forgotten connected),eat room inside (I guess), adds weight, add something that you don't really need to read but that can malfunction and prevent you from reading, and give arguments for buying it that deviate your attention from what it actually is for: Reading.
If I could subtract all the soft and hard (if any) needed for the mp3, I would. All I get from it is a hole for dust to get into my reader.
I can understand that people that download rss feeds daily can find it useful, but I just read books. I don't even need the Card slots (except for hacking, though I suppose our magicians would have found a way to hack from the pc), because I don't need to have over 190 Mb in books with myself all the time (Manga guys do, not me). I normally handle about ten books, which include the fiction book I am reading, the following two or three and the 4-5 non fiction I am reading at the same time depending on my state of mind. The reader can increase that like 10 times without a card.
I think many people confound collecting tons of books with actually reading and they are always looking for the books they don't have. I look for them too, but I am in no hurry. I chose carefully and right now I have in my PC books to pick from till next year. I will be on holidays for two weeks and I do not intend to spend my time abroad reading at all. I'll read in my spare time, but for that I have enough with 10% of the internal memory of the reader.
What I want is better contrast, faster page turns, easier font modification, longer battery life and full image-table support for non fiction. And of course, MORE Non fiction books available. Color would be nice. And I want it cheaper.
Wifi? mp3? Games? No thanks. I just want the Reader to read.
Of course this is just my humble (though firm) opinion. Wanting wifi is as perfectly right as not wanting it.
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