Harley, I think you may be comapring apples (resignations) with pears (autopass).

What I hate about guys who won't resign is that I am forced to make a number of pointless moves.

With autopass, the 'mover' still makes exactly the moves he will make in any case; it's just a quicker process. My guess is that most guys won't bother too much if the BG position doesn't come back immediately (they probably have another 100 games to play anyway).