Most of our customers do not want to bother with the publication workflow and simply publish content ad-hoc, therefore we disable the workflow. As of recently one has to disable the decoration which the pages workflow module applies, as stated by the documentation: https://docs.magnolia-cms.com/product-docs/Administration/Architecture/Publishing-overview.html#_disabling_publishing_workflow_in_the_pages_app 

This feels kind of hacky., im sure there can be an easier way to do this. I guess i could uninstall the module but im really not sure how deeply it's roots go inside the installation...

I would even go as far as not to bundle the pages workflow in by default and make it a module on has to excplicitly add to the installation.