First, the dark brotherhood DLC has been long awaited and will remove Veteran ranks, so there will be less grinding on alts to get go content. This is good in several ways, since the current exp grind
I really hope you guys discover it is in fact impossible to remove VRanks w/o breaking the game <img class="emoji" src="https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/resources/emoji/wink.png" title=";)" alt=";)" height="20" />
I think you are right. Removing Veteran Ranks would be a lot more painful than it's worth, and would inevitably bug a lot of things out. May as well leave them in. If they came out and said, ok we're