I find the spinners on numeric text boxes useful about 2% of the time.  Please make the default for them not to show.  I think it is ridicules to have to go through this:
var numeric = $("#APVol").kendoNumericTextBox().data("kendoNumericTextBox");

        numeric.wrapper
               .find(".k-numeric-wrap")
               .addClass("expand-padding")
               .find(".k-select").hide();
just to make them nonfunctional but I still have the additional space being taken up for the spinner area.