1) “There is a setting” is a good way to deflect from the more difficult job of making decisions about what the product should do. 2) Every setting comes with

1) “There is a setting” is a good way to deflect from the more difficult job of making decisions about what the product should do. 2) Every setting comes with an opportunity cost. More than one product has died under a morasse of way too many configuration flags, or focused on features to please a minority of users at the cost of the product itself. 3) The group that says they want the setting is always bigger than the group that will actually use the setting.