Should we Avoid QuickTime at all Costs?

Hello, an established and distinguished member of this forum recently said:
"Don't use QuickTime...for anything. Seriously, just completely uninstall it from your rig."
What is some of the thinking behind this view? I know others have also expressed very strong reservations about it as well.
I don't want to start a big controversy or anything, but I would like to get up to speed on this essential issue.
Thanks so much!
Matt
PS: I have a Canon 5D Mark II and shoot in H.264.... Quicktime seems to be intimately involved in my workflow somehow.....

Having QuickTime installed won't hurt anything if you don't choose to use it.
Having QuickTime installed is necessary to import several kinds of .mov files (though Premiere Pro can handle some natively, as in the example that Colin gave)---so, if you are going to use .mov files as source media, you need QuickTime installed.
Exporting to QuickTime is sometimes required by some clients. Though you may try to dissuade them, the client is (usually) the boss.
If you have a choice, and you care about color fidelity, don't export to QuickTime. QuickTime has a jumbled, half-implemented way of kinda-sorta doing color management. This method doesn't even work reliably within Apple software, meaning that people can't roundtrip media just within Apple applications with consistent color in some circumstances. This absolutely bedevils us, as we keep trying to hit this moving target. Any time someone tells me that our color management system isn't working, I _know_ (well, strongly suspect, anyway, with a very high rate of being right) that they're using QuickTime media.
Because QuickTime is a 32-bit software component, we had to create our own intermediate process (QT32 Server) to communicate between QuickTime and the 64-bit Adobe video applications. This component can diminish performance but, more to the point, it can be the source of some other problems. The one that springs immediately to mind is the fact that aggressive firewall programs seem to hate QT32 Server, as described here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2011/02/troubleshooting-quicktime-errors-with-after-eff ects.html

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