The pernicious USB-stick stall problem

The pernicious USB-stick stall problem

I'm sure that some users have such an HDD plugged in all the time and they would object to the performance degradation.

I am myself one of those, finding that the easiest way to expand storage on my old home PC. But I think that is still exceptional, and could be solved by passing a parameter when mounting (in fstab? I have those drives mounted the traditional way, instead of hot-plugging), or later via some tuning command.