Please don’t go chopping some metal on the brakes because it’s in the way just to save like $10 of brake pads at most. Because that piece of metal is there to prevent the brake cable from flexing too much when you pull and release. With that piece of metal gone it will be bent at a greater angle every time you brake and eventually it will snap on you when you really need it!! 
every part on the strida was designed with a purpose I don’t think they went through 5 generations of changes to only keep that one part to make you buy new pads earlier.