I think that people cut the cords for the same reason electronics repairers do, they don't want the hassles of someone picking it up, plugging it in, & doing some damage, like burn themselves or something else...
Then it all comming back onto them.
Repairers here have to cut the cords off stuff they are chucking out, before they even leave the shop.
The weight of the copper in the cords is almost nothing, the plugs weigh 8 grams of brass & the best use I have found for a old cable was as a replacement cord for a angle grinder.
Actually I found a light stand with the switch on the cord. So I took the cord off a grinder I had, that had a broken switch in it & put the lightstand cord on it.
Now I have a grinder with a switch again, just on the cord this time.
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