Side Effects of Linux tools

This behaviour of Linux tools reminds me of Allopathic drugs (in contrast to other medical systems - Ayurvedic, Homeo etc). Allopathic drugs are all about balancing the benefits with the deleterious side effects that invariably occur due to the use.
The Linux tool in question is NTFS-3G. I had to use it to be able to access some NTFS drives. NTFS-3G makes entries in the Fstab, so any drive that is plugged in is recognised as NTFS drives and the OS tries to load it according to those parameters set by the tool.
In my case since the external drive was sda1 and sda2, while plugging in any other flash drive causes sda1 to be mounted as an NTFS drive causing errors. The solution was to delete the NTFS-3G created entries in the fstab and replugging the thumb drive.
I wonder if NTFS-3G can be set not to modify the fstab.