Ditto.
A lot of these features aren't so much of no interest to me as potentially very annoying. Not everyone likes this sort of thing spoon-fed them; for my part I'd much rather just be given a character's name and where I can find them, and go from there, not have my UI intruded on by a bunch of ugly floating exclamation marks, pointers, and lists.
So yes, I hope very much these are an option, not something we have to have, or that the UI customisation system will let us remove them somehow by ourselves.