@Hammer

Yep, and there is a very good reason for that, because it amkes sense! You can replace a lot of legacy ports with USB or SATA via adapters but is it really worth it, when you have just spent a lot of money on a nice new motherboard you don't want to have to go out and spend £15-20 on a PS2 or Serial adapter, and if your adapting say 2xIDE, 1xPS/2, 1xSerial and 1xParallel that's £75-100. Because we can buy the parts in relativly large quantities and we don't need bridging chips or cases or some of the connectors then it is a lot cheaper to include them on the motherboard, most of the part's your tyalking about ahve to be included anyway as they are part of other chips, we might be able to save a few £££ by not putting connectors on but not much. Also you start top use up all of your USB ports on legacy stuff, I run by USB mouse through a cheap PS/2 adapter as I wan't to keep my (plentifull) supply of USB ports available.
If a lmajority think that we should loose these ports then I will ommit them from the design as I am taking a democratic view on what features to include but this is my oppinion