There's a simple fix to this, isn't there? Add a user option to define a default group to place new contacts into. I think a part of the perceived "high work"

There's a simple fix to this, isn't there? Add a user option to define a default group to place new contacts into. I think a part of the perceived "high work" is treating what G+ would like you to think of as "your friends" as "random people I want to follow" a la Twitter.