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Storage space is not an issue for me and it wouldn't be for others if this was optional. I guess the only problem is, as you say, where to get satellite images for an app that doesn't make money.
I think you underestimate how much storage those tiles take up compared to the vector map data.
Well it depends on the resolution and compression, but storing a city worth of satellite images would probably be in the many GB range.