Just because you're willing to stop, doesn't make it "not an issue."

I've spent in total, literally hours of my life arguing with motorists who absolutely refuse to cross a crossing while I'm anywhere near it. Even when I'm not a pedestrian. Even though I have a stop sign and they don't. Even though I'm not in the "crosswalk," only near it, or nowhere near anything that remotely resembles a crosswalk, but just waiting to cross the road. Without exaggeration, more than once I've turned around, started to proceed the other direction, and still had to wait one or two minutes being berated by a motorist for refusing to cross the street in front of someone who's just randomly stopped. If they've hallucinated a stop sign, how do I know when that hallucination might disappear?

It's hugely frustrating and it's going to get someone killed someday, when they're part of a rear-end chain reaction involving one of these drivers who just stops randomly. I would definitely appreciate a "Not A Crosswalk" sign ... but I don't know how much effect that would have on drivers that can't even tell whether or not I'm a pedestrian.

Plus, a lot of these crossings are often used by (and most appropriate for) families with several small children, people with limited mobility who must cross the street slowly, etc. Light controls are pretty much absolutely necessary at these intersections, but no one's ever going to bother installing one.