Can The Stickout on The GPU Block Be Removed?

The colored end piece of a water block, in either black acetal, or white, is called a stickout and can be removed. In the diagram below you can see there are screws that secure the stickout end piece from below, accessed from the underside of the waterblock.

In this diagram example from the EK-Quantum Vector² Trio RTX 4080 D-RGB - Nickel + Plexi Product EAN: 3831109902844, we can see the stickout end piece is labeled #4 and the two (2) screws securing it are labeled #7.

exploded picture of the mentioned block from it's manual