Who's the idiot that deleted rear bumpers on new cars??

While the 5mph bumpers do absorb low-speed impacts better, & offer better initial impact protection in a hard hit, they were really designed to save the Insurance Companies $$$$$. From both light impact injury AND, more importantly, body damage to the vehicle.
Ever see the hinged, spring-loaded grilles in the '70's-'80's A & G-body GM's? It's not 'cause it's cool & You can pop a crumpled up ball of paper in behind the bumper like a garbage can, & it won't save your pretty little face for one second, it's so the bottom could move back like 4" w/o breaking & costing $$$.
It was something that the Insurance Institute (understandably) lobbied for, and got. I'm sure somebody into those particulars knows how much it increased profit margins &/or reduced premiums, but it certainly made cars less appealing...
Over 25yrs ago, I bumped a Mercury Villager in the LR, it was a $1,200 claim for the brackets, cover, and paint back then.......the subject vehicle of post#2 in this thread is a disgrace, throwaway **** is supposed to be cheap, it's truly a criminal fraud to burden the Ins. Co's. & the rest of the premium paying Public to subsidize this ill-concieved POS.