To me it's a lot more terrifying, creepy, weird, prone to imagining all kinds of vague "supernatural" sensations (if Satan is in my body, can I ever feel him?), etc. to believe than Satan lives in my body than to just consider that my moral nature has been corrupted by the fall.
The Bible often uses metaphor, but that doesn't mean that the metaphor has an exact parallel in reality. Paul says sin "dwells" in us, but that doesn't necessarily mean that sin is a conscious, breathing entity. It's just metaphor.
I've witnessed several mentally unstable Christians, all in the LC. From my observation, such people tend to become very subjective and superstitious about their sensations, and get to the point that they can't sort them out. These people don't need to be thinking that Satan lives in their body. For the sake of the less stable and even immature among us, and there are many, I suggest we hold off on the practically groundless speculation that Satan himself dwells in us.
The other side of you question, Peter, then, is if the teaching does no good, why bother with it?
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