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I would rather have an Emacs that offers fewer choices but looks good out of the box.

Example: the software supplied by Apple with a Mac does not have any themes except for the choice between Blue (colorful) and Graphite (subdued) in the Appearance system preference pane.

OTOH, I regularly have to wait for the software supplied by Apple and I almost never wait for Emacs.

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"Example: the software supplied by Apple with a Mac does not have any themes except for the choice between Blue (colorful) and Graphite (subdued) in the Appearance system preference pane."

Both of which I find strikingly unattractive. Overall, I find the OSX UI annoying to use, and the relatively lack of choices in things doesn't help.

I like the idea of a useful out-of-the-box set of defaults, but that should prevent offering users options to tweak to their hearts' content.

By waiting, do you mean wait for the release, or wait because the software is busy doing something?

Wait because the software is busy. E.g. OS X's spinning beach ball.

(Emacs is single-threaded, but so is a Unix shell.)

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