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IamSam, thank you for your feedback.  I'm certain you have far more credence here than do I, but my OPINION stands.  NOT that the confirmation EXISTS, but that the behavior is inconsistent (dragging to the trash can forces confirmation but right-clicking and dealing with a menu (the "more advanced" way) doesn't.  Worse, to have canceling future confirmations when deleting a VECTOR MASK cancel the confirmation when deleting a layer mask AND for the deletion to apply the mask without warning or confirmation is, in my opinion, poor behavior and IS A PROBLEM.

As "thebestcpu" stated, inconsistent actions like this can cause a significant loss of time trying to figure out why unexpected modifications to a layer or image are occurring.  Causing an unrelated action that has as IT'S DEFAULT to alter a layer without warning is a bug in MY OPINION.  Clearly you, and Adobe, disagree as it was discussed in a forum at least 3 years ago and nothing appears to have been changed. 

I'm currently monitoring a multi-week class of 30 new Photoshop users, whose instructor deletes layers and masks using the less evolved way of dragging them to the trash can.  As did several of the photographers presenting at the recent Photoshop Summit, grabbing the mask, or layer, with their tablet stylus and dragging it to the trash can.  Seemed pretty advanced to me. 

In any case, I've performed the workaround and this can now go on the screw-it pile with the other niggling time-wasting pain in the neck stuff.