Much ado about Pluto

A body of astronomers has agreed that an object about 40 au away from the sun can no longer be called a planet, after a week or so of media tension.
I like science, physics especially, and astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology interest me a lot. I've read books on the subjects, and other aspects of science, written by scientists. And I check the news on science and space. From this viewpoint, it seems that the media hype surrounding Pluto's "demotion" is a bit surreal, superfluous and ....well, stupid.
If you kept your eye out for news about the vote by members of the IAU, you'll have heard about it being "hijacked" by "Pluto-haters" and so on. People are also upset at the fact that they have to adjust long-remembered mnemonics. Some, feeling that Pluto has been officialy thrown out of the "in-club" of planets because of its size, accuse those who voted against Pluto's planethood of being bullies.
All this about the grouping of a spherical mass of ice millions of kilometres away, that we know very little about, that was only known to humans for about 70 years.
Well, alright, perhaps it is important to know whether it is a planet or not, in order to understand how our solar system, and ultimately how we, came into being.
The best thing about science is that our views can change, depending on the evidence we have. So what if Pluto ain't a planet anymore? It doesn't fit in with the rest. Leave it out ... for now. Right now, there's a probe on it's way to Pluto called New Horizons, and it's out there to find out more about it. If it finds out that it should be a planet again, alright, we made a mistake, and so let's change the theory again. Sure, we may deny half a generation of schoolchildren the chance to have nine planets in their science projects, but hey, it's one less piece of work for their parents to do the night before it's due.