The truth is that often nobody thinks too much of defaults, unless they are horribly wrong. So there are two good things about defaults: they're probably not ho

The truth is that often nobody thinks too much of defaults, unless they are horribly wrong. So there are two good things about defaults: they're probably not horribly wrong and they don't require any additional work. Some defaults are just historical curiosities, some defaults were configured 20 years ago and nobody took the crusade to update them, some might be bad, but changing them would break too much stuff in the wild. Now I'm not suggesting that everyone should change everything. I almost never change defaults, myself. But I just don't agree than defaults are good. They're probably not bad, and that's about it.