For me I don't like having to keep track of what's default and what's not. What if I change a default, things change unexpectedly somewhere as a result, and I'm

For me I don't like having to keep track of what's default and what's not. What if I change a default, things change unexpectedly somewhere as a result, and I'm not able to work out what change it was due to? Fewer options decreases the odds of this happening. Other good approaches are highlighting settings that are different from the default. Many UIs do this, but unfortunately it's hard to get a birds-eye-view. Now, config files! Thousands of options, quite happy to hack on that. You know why? Because I can diff against the default and get a birds-eye-view of what's different. I'm not sure if KDE's settings are all text files underneath, but that's the issue. If there were a settings dialog somewhere saying "here's what's different to the default, out of all the KDE settings", that would help a lot. Otherwise it's just too hard to keep track of. This would help on GNOME too, but in the absence of that, simply having fewer settings is a kind of reassurance that there aren't many you've changed and forgotten about. A separate point, but running default settings is also sticking to the "happy path". It's more well-tested, and I've learned I shouldn't change too many settings different from the defaults, even if they are officially supported, because things aren't as well tested - even if everything official works, third-party things tend to make assumptions that are violated.