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Sensible Defaults do not exist, and neither do Best Practices. New video: youtu.be/deKtxzvf92g Whenever next anyone asks me what 'Sensible Default' to use, or what the 'Best Practices' are, I will link this video. It explains my arguments, includes examples, and hopefully finally puts it to rest.

Forgive me if I missed some aspect but to me, "default" implies that there are options. So before Blender added left select, right click wasn't the default, it was the only way. After, left was the *sensible default* since that's what most people expect.

And so basically I agree with you that there should be ways to customize the product, but you still should think of what the best initial value for a setting is. For a pilot chair maybe extended all the way is the best because then everyone can get in it before starting to adjust it :)

Blender did have an option to change it back then, so it was a default, but there was a much wider assumption that it was the 'sensible' default, so who or why would ever change it? You should indeed think of an initial value, but do not think of it as 'best'. That way lies ruin, and perscription.