I've run into this situation at home when setting up some new networking equipment with much more configurability than I'm used to. My system had no DNS, alerti

I've run into this situation at home when setting up some new networking equipment with much more configurability than I'm used to. My system had no DNS, alerting me to the issue, and I fixed it. I don't need nor want my systems to decide for me to use Google's DNS, or any other DNS. As you mention, this _is_ a rare circumstance, and likely self-induced by some sort of "power user". I assume there are few of those power users who want the choice made for them.