Ideally yes, but sometimes your tables get so monstrously large that the auto-analyze is sampling thousandths of a percent of rows, and fiddling with sampling t

Ideally yes, but sometimes your tables get so monstrously large that the auto-analyze is sampling thousandths of a percent of rows, and fiddling with sampling targets can throw off seemingly unconnected queries. Planners are mysterious black boxes, which we can at best influence.