Personally, I think they are pretty handy for bigger volume adjustments on items, but find myself using envelopes more and more these days. If you don't want to see them, go to Options/Preferences/Media and under "Media Item Editing/Media Item Adjustment Range" and change the option to -inf..+0db. This will move the adjustment handle to the top of your media item (hover over the top and you will see your cursor change to a double head), and you will no longer have the line in the middle. The dis-advantage is now you can still lower the volume of an item, but you can't increase above 0db.
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