Allow Article Author to Remain After Switching Teammate to Lite Seat

We occasionally have to transfer a full seat license from one teammate to another. Most reassignment items make sense, like customer support messages, but not so much for article authors. We have a large Help Center with hundreds of articles and it’s helpful for us to know who originally uploaded an article. It’s frustrating that we cannot maintain accurate records and are forced to assign an erroneous article author. Can this item become optional or be removed?