Well, while your point is right, removal of system-tools-backends will broke LXDE usability because there is no other alternative package to manage users - other known users management tools are integrated into GNOME and KDE, and gnome-system-tools is only standalone package which can be used in any other DE. Yes, literally, there is no alternative to the gnome-system-tools and it depends on system-tools-backends.
- Bug#821862: Do not release with stretch Michael Biebl
- Bug#821862: Do not release with stretch Andriy Grytsenko
- Bug#821862: Do not release with stretch Emilio Pozuelo Monfort