For one, I'd argue that reasonable defaults mean that the defaults are not hardcoded into the ntp client, and don't point to some random company's servers. Addi

For one, I'd argue that reasonable defaults mean that the defaults are not hardcoded into the ntp client, and don't point to some random company's servers. Additionally, given the many different places that configuration files could be located for this client, it makes debugging issues much more difficult, as you now have three directories and one file to look into if something starts going haywire. This is pretty much the opposite of well-designed.