Opinionated software should actually change slower. Why? Because if conventions/defaults change quickly you break constantly or even worse, you quietly break.

Opinionated software should actually change slower. Why? Because if conventions/defaults change quickly you break constantly or even worse, you quietly break. And of course since your unit tests are often written in the same language, you now have double the problems. With less opinionated software, changes actually rarely break you since it typically requires opt-in/code change to pick up the new capabilities.