I live in an apartment and this is either the first or second one that has a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. My last place might have, but neither I nor my (then) boyfriend ever used it, so it might as well have never existed.
The point of an appliance is that it makes you life easier. An electric kettle is "idiot proof" and uses very little power. A dish washer washes a ton of dishes with way less water than you'd use, and it saves you the time/labor of washing them. A microwave cooks food without having to wait for your whole oven to turn on, and you can stick it pretty much anywhere.
But what does a garbage disposal do that makes your life better than not having one? Is scraping your plate into the trash or a compost bin REALLY that difficult? Because you can't put bones, rice, pasta, huge-sized things, and lots of other stuff into a disposal. And I've never heard of a sink getting clogged because the tiny bits of food from plates ganged up.
If anything, there should be disposals in the bathroom sinks! Because of the soap scum and the hair that work together and get very gross.
But when you have a garbage disposal, you get used to putting garbage into the sink and thinking, "oh, the disposal will deal with it!" and, inevitably, you will put too much stuff in it at once, or the wrong kind of stuff, or a tiny metal thing will fall into there, and then you're fucked. So either you gotta call a plumber or tell the landlord and they give you shit for fucking up the disposal!
This thing is only trouble! I lived most of my life without one and never had any issues! This thing sucks so bad I hate it!!!!