Bottom line is: It's my data (and drive space) - let me decide how to manage
it.

I think linking previous versions to restore points is a bit "too helpful."
I will assume that MS does this for the ease of the customer, but for some
reaosn, I doubt there was an outcry from people who accidentally deleted
files, and emptied their trash, then decided they wish they had historical
copies of their documents from the past.

I am thinking it was designed to be helpful to forensic scientists who wish
to retrieve data from the PC of folks they assume are committing crimes. I
am fine with that, but I am not a criminal and want my files gone when I
delete them -- and my drive space scrubbed.

Either way, I will disable my system restore points - or limit the space
available to them so I don't have a long list of them available.

Thanks for the help!