It's not that it's difficult to remove but it takes a decent amount of time and to replace a light that will make a near 0 impact it's more effort than I'd certainly want to invest.
In the pics we had disassembled it to more easily run wiring for the radio and such. I installed a knockout panel inside of it that has connections for HDMI, AUX, and a couple USB ports. It could have been without doing it but made wire management and access with a dremel easier to cut the slot into the housing of it.
I also some spare sound dampening material on the outsides of the black plastic so it's sandwiched between that and the tan outer shell. Now if anything bounces around inside the console it's pretty quiet. No more hollow plastic sound!
If I were sound deadening the floor I'd probably go to to the effort to remove it if seats are also being pulled and have that much more access to the area. You're doing significant work as it is, an extra 30min of effort will improve overall access.
