I agree with you. This is a problem that WD should solve.
I posted a thread about it last month:
I spoke with WD Support, and they have no solution at this time.
The WD developers need to code the “WD Drive Unlock.exe” application to be able to run without requiring UAC elevation each time. There are ways that they can do this, as has been done in other software, and I sent them some of those ideas.
