There will always be some people that will disagree with the defaults. plus metrics/telemetry is disliked by many users and is not built into the software. Know

There will always be some people that will disagree with the defaults. plus metrics/telemetry is disliked by many users and is not built into the software. Knowing what settings are changed often could help, though it depends on project, I see many GNOME users changing defaults with adding a system tray extensions and nobody cares.