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They wanted a phaser but couldn't call it a vaporize setting.
But they didn't completely abandon it. Disintegration gets used a handful more times when they remember it and it helps them wave away plot holes. Like in the episode where they end up in the 60s they disintegrate a box. A box!
Two boxes stacked against each other, in fact. Sitting in a truck.
The truck does not disintigrate.
Well, not quite. Iirc the disintegration effect came about last minute when the director decided he needed a way to remove the bodies, to explain why other jaffa wouldn't see them and get suspicious.
It's why in the Wormhole Xtreme episode, they mock that exact premise when ~~O'Neill~~ Marty suggests it.
Edited, corrected below!
Technically Martin is the one who suggests it...
Ah you're right! I was thinking of a little bit later when O'Neill suggests the aliens are dead because they don't wear camouflage.
Time for a rewatch, I'm getting rusty!
Wasn't it just about the practicality of having bodies laying around the set? That makes sense in-universe though, but at least in the mockumentary meta episode (200th?) they give that reason, to clear the extras to make room essentially.