alt Hacker NewsHaving the menu exist at all is already well onto the slippery slope - once upon a time the screenshots went directly into the photo library, without any interstitial at all...
And at the time, everyone was perfectly fine with opening the photo library to access the options that are now in that menu
> everyone was perfectly fine
This was never true, of course. You've slipped way down the slope of the mythical golden past.
But also, having the option not to show an empty menu is a trivial part of customization, so this is also solved in my suggested approach.