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    I hope that predictive decisions about what most users will expect may
    be amended in the face of empirical evidence to the contrary.

This feature is meant to provide a familiar default for beginners.
The personal preferences of people on this list are not evidence about
it.  These people are experienced users, well capable of setting the
variable to whatever value they want.