Hi,
Again, I may be wrong in thinking disabling this will cause trouble to
many users. Let's just take a moment to see what users think.
Here’s my 2 cents: I’ve only been using org-mode for a few months now, but almost from the beginning I learned about org-tempo and the “<s" expansions, so I got used to them. I find it very natural and quick to type. At some point it became necessary to add "(require org-tempo)" to my init file, which didn’t bother me.
Since a few weeks ago (around 9.1.10-11, maybe?) the “<s" expansion seems a bit broken - if I try to use it in the middle of a file and there is a block of the same type further down in the file, then only the opening line of the block is inserted. So I’ve been using "C-c C-," more, which seems to work fine. I just now realized (thanks to Nicolas’ comment) that it works on regions, which is nice (I had been using "org-babel-demarcate-block” - “C-c C-v d” for that).
So, to summarize: I don’t mind having to load org-tempo explicitly, but it wold be nice to make the change visible (maybe make ORG-NEWS more visible) and to fix the bug I mentioned.
Best,
—Diego