Our current fridge (Whirlpool) came with an ice maker. It, too, "cannot be removed". Maybe there's another model out there without the ice maker *shrug*. But we simply removed the cube bin, did not connect a water line to the fridge, and have back most of the space in the freezer and don't have to deal with the havoc that an ice maker can cause. Sometimes the way over the mountain is "around".