IMO, part of this is the current "simple" systems-design that's been happening everywhere. Instead of giving users good defaults, with the ability to override a

IMO, part of this is the current "simple" systems-design that's been happening everywhere. Instead of giving users good defaults, with the ability to override almost any setting, we've designed things so it's "manufacturers choice, or none at all". This used to be just web-pages, and then it started leaking to browsers, then phones, etc. There are a lot of other issues (security, phoning home, etc), but a lot of these wouldn't be as noticeable if they didn't follow the "simple" design.