I disagree with this, not because I like griefing, but because there's been a few times where it was the only option that PW gave us to deal with ninjas. Since anyone can need anything, whether or not they can actually use it, it's useful to be able to remove offenders from party. As for PvP, I have no opinion on that…
Running into the same thing, as well -- it keeps timing out when I attempt to save. I really hope that it is still auto-saving when we log out of Foundary, I've spent the last hour or so fine-tuning my maps and creating expansive dialog trees. Losing all that work would be entirely disheartening.