You say that, but nobody seemed to notice Norton Bridge being formally closed.
A station that serves about 3 houses (if any of them ever used it) and isn't of interest to e.g. hikers is unlikely to draw much ire. Nobody overly cares about IBM Halt either. I expect by contrast Dolgarrog, which is having its platform expensively rebuilt for one or two passengers a week, would draw ire due to the special nature of the line. Wasn't a big thing made of Breich because hikers liked using it?
I think there's also an acceptance that it effectively closed due to an infrastructure change. You could have built a new one on the flyover lines, but it'd have
literally been in the middle of nowhere, and if people were going to drive to it they could drive elsewhere.
If the Far North Line's "shortcut" ever gets built, for instance, I'm not sure there will be a massive uproar about the "lost" stations there.