This is such a low impact and harmless change. Even if someone is not to agree with it, why be against it? It's not like a small team inside GitHub is going to

This is such a low impact and harmless change. Even if someone is not to agree with it, why be against it? It's not like a small team inside GitHub is going to deplete the world's activism budget and this will hinder the advance of other definitely more important changes. I'm sure they will find a way to offer minimal impacts, specially because it's just a default value that can be easily configured.