Although I am with Harry now, I don't ever see my screensavers anymore, I do miss the dead authors on the older kindles. I know, I am probably the only one.
But that was before we had the auto covers so I did look at them as they took a tad longer to wake up. But now, since I have had the lighted line of kindles, I don't notice them anymore.
But that doesn't mean they couldn't give the option for those that would like to put their own on. Wouldn't take away from my reading business. Maybe they don't want to deal with tech support when folks load bad files on the device? Wasn't it possible on the K1 to put your own screensaver files onto it? I think I remember something. I didn't care as I liked the authors.
Now I just open cover, take out kindle and read.