What are the pros and cons of "include foreign key columns in the model" option in EF 4

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With EF4 comes a new feature "Include foreign key columns in the model". What was the motivation behind adding this feature, and are there any particular gotcha's with either leaving it off, or turning it on when generating a model from an exisiting database?

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