The curse of decades-long popular software: - For the long-tail of software you can just ship it without worrying about the defaults or future backwards compat

The curse of decades-long popular software: - For the long-tail of software you can just ship it without worrying about the defaults or future backwards compatibility concerns because it won't hurt that many - For popular software though the early defaults that work great for that era (and maybe a hundred people) will annoy all the tens of thousands of future users