Yes. USAC and UCI have ridiculously stupid ones, too, but I support the bar ends one. However, I didn't see it enforced last year at all and there was at least one person in sport class that was allowed to ride with them (whether the official saw them or not is unknown). I suspect that it may have been interpreted incorrectly, too, as I know that you must have bar end plugs.

If not allowing bar ends keeps you away from a race, then whatever.