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I think the way it works now is great, being able to go short on naked options with a proper margin maintenance is way smarter than restricting everyone to go long on options or only allow people to sell calls on covered options (which kind of defeats the purpose of a bearish position when you are required to hold the deliverables).

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A bearish position is to be long on puts. You don't need to write options, especially naked options which are usually the highest tier of access on every broker and require extra agreements.

If you only go long on options, theta is eventually going to catch up with you.

For a mass-market low-education target demographic? The defaults matter here.

Retail investors shouldn't be restricted from having such capabilities, but that doesn't mean it should be the default

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's the problem with this being the default?

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