It seems to me that sway is intended for power users, people who know exactly what is going on with their linux from boot to window manager, and thus have no di

It seems to me that sway is intended for power users, people who know exactly what is going on with their linux from boot to window manager, and thus have no difficulty configuring whatever they desire. If sway adopts opinionated defaults it will mess with people who don't care for those defaults. Perhaps there is a way to do it such that opinionated defaults immediately turn off in the presence of configuration but as far as I can see there is no interest in this.