> Breaking the ability to do such tweaking with the init file we
> already have is insane.

It is equally legitimate for me to say that all of the other proposed
solutions are insane. Please provide some reasoning to substantiate
your claim, since I have already provided ample reasoning to
substantiate my claim to the contrary (see [1]).

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-09/msg00023.html