Eh, in this case one person's "poor design decisions" is another's "my inbox becomes hate incarnate if this 10+ year old thing is ever changed". https://xkcd.c

Eh, in this case one person's "poor design decisions" is another's "my inbox becomes hate incarnate if this 10+ year old thing is ever changed". https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ The best approach I've seen isn't to change defaults, but rather to make porting customization painless. And that's definitely something that can almost always be improved. I've actually been recently impressed by Samsung in this regard with their "Smart Switch" phone app. Super simple to transfer a lot of the stuff you care about from one phone to another, including sourcing from iOS and even Windows Mobile!