It would be wonderful if we had a pole removal setting.

I know it would be a ***** to go through all your shows to make that change but..One can dream ;)

If you do not like pole clips, you can disable them:

Go to settings, make sure advanced settings is checked.
Scroll down to 'display'.
Put a check mark to 'display clips list'.

Then, on any card, you can view the clips list.
In the clips list, simply remove the check mark from each item with 'Pole' as the first word.
This disables the clip.
There is no way to do this within the app for all cards at once.